Summer Meals Summit Aims to Feed Linn County Children
Dave Loy and Sonia Kersevich urge community action to feed 13 000 plus Linn County children at risk this summer. They note 53 991 summer meals served in 2012 and call for broader support ahead of a Feb 18 summit at St Wenceslaus Church to boost the federal Summer Food Service Program.
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Hoover Elementary School
Letters Shift priorities away from military budget
A reader congratulates Congress for approving a plan to fund through fiscal 2014 and restoring Head Start and community health spending. The letter argues for using the legislative process to align the budget with moral priorities and urges further Pentagon cuts while boosting domestic investments. The writer notes Afghanistan’s winding down yet high war spending and calls on Grassley and Harkin to push additional reductions and domestic support.
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Chuck Grassley
Tom Harkin
Cedar Rapids Seeks Dual Driver License Stations
A Cedar Rapids resident urges officials to approve a second driver license station to serve both sides of the river and surrounding towns. The speaker expresses awareness of Cedar Rapids’ needs and asks Mary Jo Votroubek to consider the issue.
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Cedar Rapids
Mary Jo Votroubek
Snowden clemency call sparks debate on whistle blowing
Frank Snepp criticizes Edward Snowden arguing clemency would incentivize future leaks. He recounts his own 1980 court ruling for publishing a memoir without approval, warns against eroding First Amendment protections, and questions motives behind Snowden’s disclosures and alliances with media.
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Lawmakers’ advance funding pledge falters in Iowa education row
The GOP refuses to approve public school funding for 2015 16, citing a dated law that requires two year ahead budgeting. The piece blasts the excuse as bogus, noting Republicans passed large tax cuts and state payments elsewhere with no revenue clarity.
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