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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1981
Page
6
The Gazette warns of a coming highway funding crisis tied to state budget troubles. Annual shortfalls of about 140 million for non interstates, fuel cost pressures, and changing vehicle mix threaten maintenance, with calls to reexamine tolls and tax shares between trucks and cars.
President Reagan announces a strict freeze on federal civilian hiring aiming to hold employment near 2,154,000 to slow budget growth. Attrition could drop civilian staffing to early 1970s levels without large layoffs, while needed posts may be filled from overstaffed departments.
Moon Landrieu and Neil Goldschmidt, former New Orleans mayor and Portland mayor, critique Carter era complacency and urge a shift to job creation and productive work. They see a 1980 defeat as caused by inflation and foreign reverses, not Democratic principles, and discuss future runs in 1982 and 1984.
Letters to The Gazette argue for a yes vote on a new library, praising adaptive reuse of the 1905 Carnegie building for the Cedar Rapids Community Theatre and arts groups. Critics warn of tax impacts from tax increment financing and higher local costs, urging voters to oppose.
A Washington Senior High student urges Cedar Rapids voters to approve a $2 million grant toward a new main library. The proposal promises a $5.9 million build cost now, rising to about $9 million later, with inflation and delayed reconsideration.
A citizen urges a yes vote for a centrally located new library in Cedar Rapids, arguing the site avoids major flood risk and praising downtown renewal efforts. He recalls Carnegie Library memories, urges modernization, and stresses the need for more space, better seating, and quiet study areas.
The author urges a yes on the library measure, arguing a no would end the Hall Foundation 2 million cash offer, force the library to stay in the old building, threaten further deterioration, and raise taxes later. A yes would yield a modern, well equipped library without homeowner tax levy.
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