Do-Not-Call service offers relief from telemarketing
Do-Not-Call national service signs up tens of millions and starts October 1 while noting some calls remain exempt. Author DOW MOSSMAN gains posthumous praise as The Stones of Summer is reissued in September. Iowa towns TIFFIN and FAIRFAX show high growth with ACT in Iowa City changing left turn rules on North Dodge Street and ACT Circle traffic flows.
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Dow Mossman
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Writers’ Workshop
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Iowa City
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North Dodge
Public parks litter and safety blamed after tragic case
Readers express frustration over parks left dirty with trash and discarded items. Leslie Ann Smoot, a Lancaster foster parent, faced a deadly outcome after leaving two foster children in a car for hours while at work. Sheriff Lee Baca warns vehicles are not playpens or babysitters and ventilation matters. In Iowa, the state fights a negligence suit by six participants in a stuttering research project over timing under the act.
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Lancaster
Calif
Lee Baca
Readers criticize tax rebates and food policy in letters
A reader blasts Bush for preferring tax cuts for the wealthy over child credits for the low income and questions a carrier visit. Another letter applauds Gazette coverage on food contamination tied to industrial farming and calls for consumer protection reforms.
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House
Susan Christiansen
Iowa City
Gazette
Local food choices and school board service in Cedar Rapids
The piece questions mega factory food versus local farms and urges voters to consider higher quality, locally produced food. It defends school board service as rewarding, notes personal nine-year tenure, honors educators, and invites community members to run in the September Cedar Rapids school board election.
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Cedar Rapids School Board
Cedar Wead
Cedar Rapids
No Respect for Small Places Drives Regional Decline
Editorials warn that neglect of small watersheds and streams harms rivers and oceans. The piece cites 5000 to 6000 square mile Gulf dead zone from runoff and criticizes Appalachian strip mining and mountain removal in Eastern Kentucky, noting long‑term ecosystem and community damage and calls for prioritizing environmental quality over short‑term industrial gains. It quotes Ewell Balltrip on balance of mining economy and living places, and mentions Wendell Berry as Kentucky author and Prairie Writers Circle member.
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Salina
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The Singing Detective DVD Revival And Its Quiet Power
The BBC miniseries from 1986 rediscovered on DVD is praised as bold television. It links American singing voices to universal experience, avoiding excess violence and gimmicks to focus on the human heart.
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Dennis Potter
England
Our Nation
PBS
British Isles
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