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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 2000
Page
6
Jerry Elsen serves as Editor of Editorial Pages while Mark Bowden chairs the Editorial Board and acts as Managing Editor in the organization.
The Iowa Senate and House leaders oppose planned DNR fee increases aiming to raise about six million dollars by boosting fishing permits to nineteen dollars and hunting licenses to sixteen dollars while fishing and boating boat registrations jump eighty eight percent. They warn against uncapped annual hikes and question who bears the cost for habitat, pollution controls, and enforcement, suggesting alternative funding like park admissions.
The article lauds Bill Clinton for rapid action on promises, noting his State of the Union length and immediate effects. It cites a pledge to aid family farmers and an unseasonal snowstorm following a promise to curb global warming, casting Clinton's influence as potent before his departure next January.
Cedar Rapids parent volunteers describe 546 students in Jackson Elementary, far beyond capacity since 1993. Portable classrooms, crowded hallways, limited library access, and shortened class time pressure instruction and volunteers. They urge a new school to relieve Jackson, Hiawatha, and Nixon incumbencies.
In a Jan 28 guest column Gary Sanders questions Christ as political guide and fears majority oppression. A letter writer defends the U.S. Constitution, cautions against zero tolerance, and recommends Rabbi Daniel Lapin's Americas Real War as further reflection.
A group resists a proposal to rezone 10 acres from R-1 to R-5 for a community village near 640 Blairs Ferry Road NE. Developers plan bulldozing timberland for apartments and a 99 unit underground parkade with a pool and center. A Feb 15 hearing at City Hall is urged to stop the project.
The Gazette invites letters up to 300 words. Include name street address and daytime phone number. only name and hometown will be published. Send to The Gazette Box 511 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406 or via FAX and email.
A reader questions bond practice: setting bail by charge severity may deny equal access to pretrial freedom for the poor, inviting scrutiny of how wealth influences justice and prompting discussion of uniformity in bond decisions.
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