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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1982
Page
12
On this date in 1972 a devastating West Virginia flash flood swept through the region killing 18 people. Emergency crews battled rising waters and searchers recovered bodies as communities rallied to aid survivors.
DES MOINES AP The House Ethics Committee approved a measure requiring registered lobbyists at the Statehouse to report income from lobbying activities and its sources. The bill now moves to the House floor despite weakened reporting details and uncertainty about its fate.
In a Muscatine based group’s survey, 65 percent of Iowans support a constitutional amendment to cap tax and spending growth, rising to 71 percent when informed spending uses 44 percent of income. The push includes House and Senate sponsors and aims to slow government expansion without cutting essential services.
A Des Moines report from the state comptroller shows Iowa would lose 92 million dollars in farm price supports by October 1983 under the proposed budget. It tallies 486 million in loan programs and 364 million in grant programs declines, with a 41 million tax gain from conformity to federal changes and a 225 million savings in federal taxes this year plus 500 million next year.
Des Moines Fort Dodge civil engineer Gerry Fitzgerald will announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor. Fitzgerald, former Iowa House majority leader, previously won the party nomination in 1978 but lost to Republican Robert Ray in the general election.
A Waterloo boy 5 ran in front of a Waterloo Community School District bus as it turned a corner at an intersection. He Ryan Vandermolen son of Gary and family was pronounced dead at the scene from massive head injuries. The driver was treated for shock at a local hospital.
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