City weigh policy to restrict new low income rentals in dense neighborhoods
The Gazette endorses a city plan using crime data income levels and school data to map areas where new low income and transitional housing would be blocked while preserving Section 8 use and rehabilitating existing affordable stock. Council should balance new density limits with rehabilitation projects like Southgate Development's Broadway Condominiums proposal.
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Iowa City
Jeff Davidson
Southgate Development
Broadway
Broadway St
Seeds of Destruction critique of financial reform
In Seeds of Destruction Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro analyze how the housing bubble sparked the Great Recession and nearly toppled the global financial system. They critique Congress reforms and argue for simpler, less intrusive reforms to prevent future crises. The authors conclude with a policy blueprint calling for lawmakers to study the book.
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Washington
Glenn Hubbard
Peter Navarro
Congress
City of Five Seasons Debates Tax and Flood Walls
Readers debate Cedar Rapids naming as City of Five Seasons and ponder taxation to fix potholes and flood walls while questioning funding. Letters discuss Congress health care questions and gun ownership research, urging scrutiny of benefits and risk.
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C.R
Cedar Rapids
Danger to journalists grows as conflicts shift from war zones
The piece notes a rising risk to reporters outside battlefields with kidnappings increasing worldwide. It cites 2010 figures from Reporters Without Borders, 57 journalists killed overall and 11 in Pakistan, and highlights pressure on in-country journalists and budget cuts to foreign bureaus.
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Reporters Without Borders
Pakistan
CNN
Anderson Cooper
Egypt
Tunisia
Reporters Without Border
Committee To Protect Journalists
Joel Simon
Committee To Protect
U.S
Cairo
Middle East
Hosni Mubarak
Msanchez
Estar.com
Local control matters in Iowa on traffic cameras debate
Opinion argues against Senate File 129 banning enforcement cameras and for keeping local decisions in local hands. It notes GOP and Democratic leaders resist the bill while urging lawmakers to refrain from dictating city policies and criticizes state overreach in local matters.
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Senate
Iowa
Capitol
House
Steve Kettering
Lake View
Brad Zaun
Urbandale
Cedar Rapids
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