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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1992
Page
4
The Gazette critiques the election year discourse citing unemployment crime health care and drugs as core problems. It argues for concrete plans and warns that national leaders offer only banalities and misdirection. President Bush outlined spending reductions but the piece seeks clearer action.
The piece urges candidates to be candid about deficits and tax funding while weighing defense cuts against urgent needs in health care education and elder care. It notes voter fatigue with spending and calls for specific, quantified proposals from the 1992 presidential race in Iowa and beyond.
The piece notes Princess Diana uses a British Jaguar for official duties but a German made Mercedes-Benz for private use. It quotes a British auto workers official calling the royal choice insensitive and unpatriotic amid industry turbulence.
Andrew Ward recalls watching Senator Tom Harkin spend a campaign day on a New Hampshire site. A candid look shows Harkin wearing a hard hat, helping with a jackhammer plug, and engaging with workers, offering a rare down-to-earth moment amid political theater.
A satirical note catalogs controversial art trends and critics opinions from music to painting and literature. It mentions a Cleveland Symphony concert piece titled Concerto for Pie Pans and Cowbells by Shulamit Ran, Pollock de Kooning anecdotes, Corcoran sculptures, a $6,000 taxpayer grant for throwing crepe paper, and E. E. Cummings’s playful typographic tricks, questioning modern art’s value.
Loren Jansa argues Iowa has excessive gambling forms with Gaming III on tribal land. He warns expansion threatens fiscal stability, cites Prairie Meadows bankruptcy and dog racing decline, urges a state policy study and citizen review before any new gambling ventures.
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