Reagan budget earns mixed praise as deficit path clear
The Gazette endorses Reagan’s all-Reagan FY1983 budget for sticking to campaign vows on tax cuts and frugality, while noting the unkept pledge to balance deficits by 1984. It warns of large off-budget borrowing and questions defense and education cuts, yet calls the plan honest and consistent with goals.
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Reagan
Lawmaker’s hardball stalls tax bill to save JA exemption
Rep Hugo Schnekloth blocks non controversial Cedar Rapids JA tax exemption bill in protest over sponsor Rep Robert Johnson's stance on income tax legislation. Critics say the move withholds about 15000 dollars from a youth group and harms real people.
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Hugo Schnekloth
Eldridge
Cedar Rapids
Schnekloth
Robert M.L. Johnson
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Ways and
Cedar Rapids Bus Ridership Challenge and Status Tradeoffs
Cedar Rapids faces a rider shortage threatening its bus system. Ray Bagley urges a 3–4 percent ridership rise by converting car owners with an incentive plan offering a free month and a lapel tag displaying their car. The piece argues privacy, status, and cost barriers color transit adoption and notes a near-term council tax hike to 54 cents per $1,000.
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Cedar Rapids
Ray Bagley
Bagley
Wax talk and presidential intrigue from a 1900s memo
An anonymous letter recalls Teddy Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan during 1903–1905 era, describing a wax recording setup under Roosevelt’s desk. The note explains how wax cylinders captured conversations, jokes about backing up vows, and how body heat melted wax, thwarting the recordings.
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Teddy
J.P. Morgan
What is personhood and the right to life amendment
The piece discusses the Right To Life Amendment defining personhood as all human beings including unborn offspring, and its implications for abortion laws. It contrasts religious and ethical views, notes current law, cites abortion statistics, and questions whether a fertilized egg can be a person under constitutional law.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Pol Pot
Wax Disk Pranks Wrap Up Taft Fairbanks Feud
In a Washington anecdote, Teddy meddles with wax records to decide if Charlie Fairbanks weighs Taft. A prank ends with Teddy reacting wildly as the wax disk melts. The tale ends noting he may have been the last truly smart president.
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Dannemora
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Charlie Fairbanks
Indiana
United States
J.P. Morgan
Morgan
Charlie
William Howard Taft
Taft
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