GM cuts and plant closures shake Detroit area economy
The GM news outlines massive workforce and plant reductions over six months to three years after a 1991 loss of 4.5 billion. The piece links the downturn to import competition, government regulation, and higher costs, warning of long term economic pain and broad ripple effects.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
General Motors
Ypsilanti
Mich
North Tarrytown
N.Y
United States
Branstad opens path to compromise with Legislature
Governor Branstad signals willingness to work with the Iowa Legislature on closing a near term 300 million dollar deficit. He praises lawmakers as decent but stresses need for mutual concessions amid partisan tensions. Both sides face pressure from public and special interests to move toward a workable solution.
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Terry Branstad
Iowa
Branstad
Auto industry ills traced to labor, policy roots
A guest column argues the Wagner Act and labor contracts created high costs and reduced productivity, fueling U.S. auto industry decline. It cites three decades of union-driven wage growth, closed-shop rules, and policy barriers, and contrasts with Japanese efficiency. Tomorrow proponents call to erase labor management divisions.
Letters to the Gazette on voting none of the above
A reader argues that voting none of the above would collapse political leadership and transform government into a museum. They critique Congress and senators, invoke Emerson Whitman and Thoreau, and suggest candidates like John Denver Meryl Streep or Garrison Keillor while admitting confusion about whom to vote for.
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Bush
Quayle
Congress
Washington
Ralph Emerson
Walt Whitman
Henry Thoreau
John Denver
Meryl Streep
Garrison Keill
Reagan
Cooperation as a two way street in Iowa politics
The piece argues that the Iowa Legislature should cooperate with Gov Branstad and warns that partisanship leads to costly, inferior outcomes. It asserts cooperation must be mutual and that Democrats should consider Branstad's approach.
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Iowa
Gov. Branstad
Marion Water Board weighs 115 foot tower near 29th Ave
In Marion the Water Board of Trustees studies sites for a new elevated water tank to serve growing homes. They quietly purchased two acres near 35th Street and 29th Avenue for a 115 foot high structure 70 feet wide just 100 feet from the nearest home. Residents urge reconsideration to protect land values and neighborhood character as the city meets water needs.
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Marion
Marion Water Board of Trustees
35Th Street
29Th Avenue
Right words and homonyms in everyday missteps
This digest notes rare and infrequent homonym slips such as sleighted versus slighted and do versus due. It highlights poised mishaps like reign in versus rein in and peaked versus piqued or peeked, illustrating how pronunciation trumps spelling in common errors.
Unity of Mankind Portrait at Cedar Rapids Library Display
The Baha is of Cedar Rapids present a lobby collage promoting unity of mankind. The exhibit invites library visitors to reflect on racism and common origins through an art display coordinated by Bruce Koerber and local Baha is officials at 191 Kyrie Dr SE with Mary Finch and Wendy Schamberger in leadership roles.
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Cedar Rapids
Bruce Koerber
the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of
Kyrie Dr. SE Mary Finch
Wendy Schamberger
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Joe Hladky III
Ken Slaughter
Dale Larson
Mark Bowden
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Corregidor
United Auto Workers
UAW
The
Quentin Sabotta
the Gazette
White House
Emerson
Will
Sally
Steve Beck
29Th Ave
Marion Denny
Julia Gilds
Carl Kane
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joyce Seip
Sigourney
Milwaukee
Davy Crockett
Davy
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