Tax back for jobs in Iowa gains needed support
Editorial urges Iowa to remove state taxes on farm and industrial equipment to attract GM's Saturn plant and create blue collar jobs. It cites broad public support, studies backing repeal, and proposes using lottery revenues as a replacement to avoid tax hikes, arguing partisan politics should yield to growth.
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Iowa
Saturn
House Economic Development Committee
Branstad
Iowa Professional Developers Group
Committee For Iowa
Bipartisan
Tax Study Committee
Iowa Park Fees Move Through House With Revenue Aim
The Iowa House approves a park user fee of 2 dollars per day or 10 dollars per year, arguing the money is needed to maintain state park facilities. Opponents worry the change limits free recreation. The bill includes exemptions for low income residents and projects about 1 million dollars for maintenance, with Senate likely to follow.
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Iowa
House of Representatives
Senate
Treasury
Harkin dates farming savvy to agriculture panel play
Tom Harkin used a calculated move to secure a seat on the Agriculture Committee while signaling strength on Appropriations. The Iowa senator, a former foe of Roger Jepsen, leverages farm-bill experience to bolster farm-state influence after a tense prelude.
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Tom Harkin
Appropriations
Agriculture Committee
Iowa
Harkin
Roger Jepsen
Why farm plight is everyone's problem
In a New York Times service piece tied to Lincoln’s Birthday week, the author defends federal aid for farming amid budget cuts. It argues national subsidies support a shared economy, citing Homestead Act era policy and current transit and farm aid, and rebuts Stockman and Buckley critiques as sectionalism.
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New York
Reagan
Lincoln
David Stockman
William F. Buckley Jr
Buckley
New York City
Gary
Ind
Rochester
Minn
Stockman
New York Times Service
Letters to the Gazette on government, media and grain policy
A reader criticizes federal and state government for creating problems and blames media bias. He cites a February Gazette item on a Russian grain purchase, questions prices, subsidies, and argues wealth is controlled by a small international banking elite. He urges self reliance and less dependence.
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Gazette
Consenting Adult and Other Reflections on Life Aging
A reflective essay contrasts aging wisdom with youthful impetuosity and praises a TV drama about a college age man acknowledging his homosexuality. It then critiques Marion Iowa city officials over costly legal battles involving police officers and housing code failures, criticizing lack of action and accountability.
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ABC
Channel 9
San Francisco
Iowa Supreme Court
Marion
Mike DeLa Mater
Jim Weilenhagen
Carl Ramey
Ramey
Marion Council
Tom Riley
Bill Grundy
Frank Reynolds
Officer DeLaMater
Mr. Ramey
Mayor Grundy
Pornography ad sparks Cedar Rapids protest letter
A Cedar Rapids reader, angry over a Playboy Sweepstakes ad in the Sunday paper, ties pornography to child molestation and urges The Gazette to address concerns of citizens and families. The writer cites a detective bureau contact and asks for local accountability.
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Citizens For Decency Through Law Organization
Cedar Rapids
Detective Bureau
The
Gazette
Citizens” of
Zero population letter prompts recheck of Chinese birth limits
A reader questions the one child policy logic in China. He argues that with a one for two reduction, population decline to zero would take about 31 generations, not eight, given current population estimates. He notes this provides ample time to change the law.
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China
Diagramming's sad demise and grammar debate
An out of town teacher laments the loss of diagramming for sentence structure. She cites common errors such as whomever vs whoever and corrects usage with examples like It is we and Neither of them is going. The piece critiques modern language shifts and mentions words being degraded in dictionaries.
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Cargill
Continental Grain
Canada
Argentina
Australia
Cargill’s
Mississippi River
U.S
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