Internships to Close Iowa STEM Talent Gap
Joy Grosser and Wade Arnold urge paid STEM internships to keep talent in Iowa. They cite Banno as a success story and advocate Gov Branstad’s 2 million dollar match program to expand internship opportunities statewide.
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Technology Association of Iowa
Iowa
Banno
Cedar Falls
Cial
Des Moines
Carnegie Mellon University
UnityPoint Health
United States
Joy Grosser
Wade Arnold
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Unitypoint.org
Wade.arnold
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Info
Technologyowa.org
Obamacare style life insurance reform proposed in 2016
The president urges Congress to pass broad life insurance reform mirroring Obamacare. Proposals include banning health questions, ending pre existing condition exclusions, equal premiums, outlawing age discrimination, prohibiting term policies, and mandating at least 10000 policy for those over 26 with penalties. An agency like Lifeaid would fund those unable to pay. About 25000 new regulators would enforce the law.
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Congress
Lifeaid
IRS
Privacy and Moral Debate Over Life Support and Embryo Harvesting
A reader blastely questions the ethics of keeping a brain dead woman on life support and the potential for using her remains to implant and harvest embryos. The letter criticizes political figures pushing intervention and asks what moral principles would bar such acts in law or policy.
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Texas
Additional symptoms of workplace bullying
A reader lists scapegoating misquoting and denial of errors as bullying signs. She urges documentation of incidents with dates quotes and responses and cautions about managers who declare a family atmosphere or hide the employee handbook. Shirley Miers Cedar Rapids.
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Shirley Miers
Cedar Rapids
IBEW 405 Parking Support Acknowledged by Veterans Center
The Iowa Veterans Welcome Center board and volunteers thank IBEW Local 405 for financial support enabling free parking near the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on May's Island. Volunteers, veterans, Cedar Rapids City Council, and locals backed the petition highlighting service and democracy. Roger A. Wiest, president.
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Iowa Veterans’ Welcome Center Board
Ibew Local 405
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
May’s Island
Iowa Veterans’ Welcome Center
Cedar Rapids
Roger A. Wiest
UAE Breastfeeding Law Sparks Debate On Women’s Rights
Lenore Skenazy critiques an UAE mandate requiring two years of breast feeding, arguing it treats women as chattel while noting harsh penalties for noncompliance and questioning the broader obsession with infant feeding over other parenting choices.
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United Arab Emirates
Uae
New York
Michael Bloomberg
Tibet
Oreos
Newman O’s
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