Cedar Rapids home valuations rise 16 percent in 1996 notices
The Cedar Rapids Assessor mails 37,000 residential valuation notices reflecting a citywide 16 percent rise in taxable values. Interior inspections of over 85 percent of homes uncovered unrecorded improvements, with market condition factors also boosting values. Higher valuations imply higher property taxes due September 1996, though exact levy amounts remain undetermined.
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Rick Ellars
Ellars
Cedar Rapids
Iowa House debates death penalty amendments in extended session
After a nine hour debate the Iowa House kept working on the death penalty bill amid 20 proposed amendments. Lawmakers added two offenses eligible for punishment by lethal injection and defeated proposals to extend or limit the penalty to all first-degree murders. The panel approved adding murders of peace officers and especially heinous crimes as Death eligible. House leaders warned of continued session ahead of a final vote.
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Des Moines
Brent Siegrist
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Terry Branstad
House Judiciary Committee
John Connors
D-Des Moines
Connors
Steve Grubbs
R-Davenport
Grubbs
Jack Holveck
Branstad
Partisan push to abolish national school lunch and breakfast programs
Congress faces a GOP plan to end federal support for national school lunch and breakfast, disband WIC, and return funds to states in block grants. White House warns of deep cuts totaling up to 7 billion over five years, while Cedar Rapids officials say hungry students would suffer and learning would decline.
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Associated Press and Gazette
Washington — House
Congressional Committee
GOP
White House
Linn-Mar
Joe Pacha
Diane Flemming
Cedar Rapids
Groundbreaking Ceremonies for Cedar Rapids African American Museum
African American groundbreaking ceremonies are scheduled today in Cedar Rapids with event details listed on page 1B. The project marks a significant milestone for local cultural heritage and community history.
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Cedar Rapids
Explosion rocks storage facility in southeast Iowa
Investigation continues into a storage facility explosion in southeast Iowa. The report notes a local event with photos on the back page and references page 10 for further details.
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Iowa
Public broadcasting cuts seen as modest in House proposal
Rep. John Porter proposes trimming 15.4 percent from the 1996 public broadcasting budget and about 30 percent from 1997, with no cut to the current 285 million appropriated. The move aims to test GOP support and signals the start of a lengthy budget fight.
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Washington
House
John Porter
R-Nl
Congress
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Labor, Health and Human Services and Education
Porter
Public Broadcasting
White House
Leon Panetta
Court upholds dancer's worker comp in drink linked crash
Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a damage award to Jacqueline Fernandez a Bottoms Up Lounge dancer injured in a Sept 3 1989 drunken car crash. It ruled the employer's socializing with customers and urging drink purchases caused intoxication and thus her injuries.
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Iowa Supreme Court
Jacqueline Fernandez
2800 Corporation
Bottoms Up
Council Bluffs
Fernandez
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