Irresistible Cedar Rapids Library Bond Question
The Gazette argues for passing a $7.9 million Cedar Rapids Public Library bond with Hall Foundation’s $2 million gift. It notes Downtown site advantages, reduced costs, avoided residential tax impact, and upgrades to riverfront access while preserving the 1905 Carnegie Library. The editorial urges high turnout and citizen action to secure the project.
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Hall Foundation
Second Street
Fifth Avenue
Carnegie Library
Cedar Rapids
Lingual bias debate on English only workplace rules
The Supreme Court avoided a clear ruling on English only workplace rules after a Brownsville Texas case where a worker was fired for speaking Spanish. EEOC guidance now requires business necessity to justify any English only rule and stresses clarity to applicants, highlighting 28 million non English speakers in the U S with 11 million Spanish speakers.
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U.S. Supreme Court
High Court
Brownsville
Texas
Lumber Company
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC
Supreme Court
U.S
Budget realities clash with rhetoric on Carter Reagan budget
The article reviews former President Carter’s budget proposal amid the transition year, highlighting proposed cuts and allocations. It notes funding for the Coast Guard Reserve, the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, the Council on Wage and Price Stability, impact aid, and the Beekeeper Indemnity Program, illustrating the political and fiscal challenges in trimming federal spending. It argues Reagan may face similar limits in achieving substantial reductions.
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Washington
White House
House
Senate
Carter
Reagan
Coast Guard Reserve
Nixon
National Endowment For the Arts
National Endowment For the Humanities
Council On Wage and
Cedar Rapids Library Hope Tied To Everyman Collection
A Cedar Rapids speech notes the 1905 Carnegie Library and the Everyman Library as early cross influences, praising libraries as rich idea storehouses. The speaker urges support for a new library in the January 27 referendum, citing democracy, learning, and global awareness as reasons.
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Carnegie Library
Cedar Rapids
Everyman's Library
Everyman
Iowa
Hall Foundation
Linn County
Thoughtful Eastern Iowans Share Their Views Series
Signi Falk of Cedar Rapids, professor emerita of English at Coe College, joins a reader-led panel inviting Eastern Iowans to express their views on unlimited topics. She is involved with Common Cause, Amnesty International, and the Heritage Agency on Aging.
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Signi Falk
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Common Cause
Amnesty International
The
Heritage Agency On Aging
Letters Express Mixed Reactions On V J Day And Peter O Toole
Readers reflect on V J Day with joy and sorrow, noting freed hostages and unanswered fates in Korea and Vietnam. Others critique Peter O Toole after a career of diverse, often extreme roles, joking about his typecasting and asking him to try lighter parts like Bambi.
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Korea
Vietnam
Maxine Jackson Fairfax
Peter O'Toole
Redundancies and the trap of superlatives in media
A collage of quotes from Florida newspapers mocks redundancies and vague phrases. It notes the futility of to be named later futures, asserts unique cannot be more, and critiques phrases like more perfect or more flawless while citing familiar examples from Miami Herald and Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
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Florida
Miami Herald
The
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
David Woodley
Dolphins
Miami Beach
Theater of the Performing Arts
Iowa
Des Moines
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J.F. Hladky, Jr
Joe Hladky III
John Donnelly
John Robertson
Art Heusinkveld
the Gazette
C.R
Mexico
Robert Walters
Anuawarne Baldenciag
Againistina
China
National Geographic Society
Washington, D.C
Middle East
Africa
Siberia
Falk
Denver
O’toole
Henry II
Jim
Mr. Chips
Jesus Christ
Jack the Ripper
la Mancha
Tiberius Caesar
Pete
Carl Kane
Jerry Elsen
United States
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