Public TV funding faces tough target in new GOP era
The editorial argues public television and radio funding, though challenged by Gingrich's coalition, are not easily cut. It notes a small CPB appropriation and argues for preserving access to educational programming, while acknowledging perceived liberal bias at large stations.
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Mamublic Television
House
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
Public TV
Discovery Channel
Arts and Entertainment
Public Broadcasting
Congress
Owning a movie shifts from novelty to routine in 1990s
The rise of home video boosts both rental and sales, with double-digit gains in video sales. Consumers prefer buying some titles, even expensive prestige films, while fast food promos sell cheap tapes. VCRs in 80 percent of homes make owning common, yet it once felt exclusive.
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Intriguing Marketing CO
CNN
McDonald's
National Pastime Protection Act roils baseball labor talks
The 104th Congress opens with Sen. Moynihan proposing a National Pastime Protection Act to let athletes play while owners and players bargain. Orrin Hatch backs Senate involvement, while critics say Congress focuses on sports over broader worker issues amid unpaid salaries and stadium subsidies.
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Washington
Daniel Moynihan
D-N.y
Orrin Hatch
Utah
Congress
Republican Hatch
Hatch
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Janitors For Justice
Senate
America
Estate fees debate and a judge's quiet shortcut
A Gazette dispute over fees for settling estates ignores that executors can use a courthouse referee to settle without lawyer fees. A Cedar Rapids judge advised a relative to use the referee, paying only 50 dollars to transfer property instead of 800 plus with a lawyer. The letter cites a Mount Vernon reader noting cost savings.
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the Gazette
Minneapolis
Cedar Rapids
Donald Hughes
Mount Vernon
Gazette welcomes letters and guest columns policy
The Gazette invites letters and guest columns addressing public business with guidelines. All material may be edited and not returned. Full name signature address and daytime phone required. 300 word limit on letters. one letter per writer every 30 days.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Gazette Net
CompuServe
Compuserve.com
Memory of Mary Jane Murdoch McNally Beckons in Local Remembrance
John M. Ely Jr. of Cedar Rapids recalls the discovery of Mary Jane Murdoch McNally in a Cedar Rapids river, tying her to a 1930s Franklin Senior High figure. He notes their past encounter and announces an annual donation to the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Iowa in her memory.
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the Gazette
Mary Jane Murdoch McNally
Coe College
Franklin Senior High School
Sheffie
Larimer and Shaffer
Mohawk Park
Mary Jane
The
Alliance For the Mentally Ill of
Iowa
Change to allow revocable trusts to hold agricultural land
Barbara Barrett refutes a Dec 15 Gazette opinion on revocable living trusts and Iowa probate law. The Iowa State Bar Association initiated a change to Chapter 9H allowing revocable trusts to hold agricultural land without probate or fee changes. The article argues the writer's claims that revocable trusts become probate assets and incur higher fees are false, detailing probate duties and tax rules.
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Barbara Barrett
Iowa State Bar Association
Iowa
Bar Association
The
United States
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