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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1995
Page
2
Ellen Goodman argues holiday weight gain is a genetic and behavioral mix, not just willpower. She satirically frames a five pound excess as a seasonal burden while proposing a T-gene at the buffet table as a unifying cause.
Iowa lawmakers enter a new phase of debate over the Iowa Communications Network. Rates and bids for Part 3 hookups raise costs beyond the initial 114 million backbone funding from 1989. Branstad and Corbett rule out further borrowing while committees prepare a 15 million technology trust fund and capital funding reviews.
The schedule outlines topics for the 1995 Iowa Legislature week including the Iowa Communications Network technology and infrastructure. It notes welfare and health care reforms and abortion on Thursday and gambling on Friday. Hog lots are listed for Saturday. Crime death penalty and prisons are set for Sunday. The new session opens Monday with the first day of the Legislature.
Gov. Terry Branstad said non-educational users of the Iowa Communications Network should pay hourly rates covering operating costs, not construction costs. He called the ICN a bargain at its $236 million price tag and urged viewing it as a public utility while offering subsidized rates for long distance learning.
Former state Sen. Paul Pate of Marion becomes secretary of state while Mary Lundby also from Marion shifts from House to Senate today. Officials say teaching tolerance of homosexuals is inappropriate and could trigger state intervention, while revenues last month continue to beat estimates.
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