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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 2006
Page
4
The Gazette argues against seven lane expansion on First Avenue East. It urges context sensitive design, better traffic light timing, fewer driveways, mass transit, and stronger street preservation while calling for public discussion and elected official decisions.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki defends a plan offering amnesty to some insurgents while signaling a strategy to crush Sunni fighters with U S aid. He insists Americans will stay long enough to dismantle insurgents, then leave, and suggests turning Shia militias into a loyal army.
Margaret Hannon of Cedar Rapids argues the festival charged $13 per person for afternoon entry, mixing a BBQ Roundup with a country concert. She says the price increase was not clearly advertised and excludes elderly and working-class families, leading to missed business for food vendors.
A Cedar Rapids reader criticizes the June Balloon Glow at Brucemore for loud entertainment funded by tax dollars and parking disruption for tenants. The letter urges respectful civic conduct, transit use, and calls for constitutional scrutiny of national security spying without court review.
A concert attendee claims forced purchase of a Freedom Festival button adds a separate fee to entry. They state staff refused entry without buying the button, calling the practice extortion and unfair to ticketholders.
Dr Mark Havertape and Havertape Chiropractic staff lead the Cuddly Critter Collection in June. Donated stuffed animals go to Cedar Rapids Police Department for children in accidents or from abused homes. Local doll clubs add 65 animals to support the effort.
The text honors the Supreme Court decision on June 29 upholding military law and the Geneva Convention as ethical norms for trials of armed conflict detainees. It lauds the Constitution's three-branch structure.
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