Iowa News Briefs Highlight Angels Flight and Bridge Milestones
Iowa's Angel Flight Cen tral notes 81 active pilots completing 36 missions this year aiding medical needs. Cedar River bridge milestone as a $9 million CRANDIC span relays freight to Penford Products, though Waterloo bridge replacement delays full regional use into fall. City opens temporary police substation at Second Ave SE as permanent site on First Ave expected this fall.
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Iowa's Angels
Iowa
Angel Flight Central
Angel Flight
Cedar River
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Crandic
Penford Products
Waterloo
Second Avenue
15Th Street SE
First Avenue
Market woes hit Iowa dairy and local option tax funds
Iowa dairy producers suffer hundreds of dollars daily loss as milk prices lag production costs amid recession. Imports of milk byproducts and rising feed costs worsen the market while calls for government intervention grow. Linn County faces a smaller loss in local option sales tax over five years as Cedar Rapids already collects a franchise fee, limiting additional taxes.
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Iowa
Bill Northey
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Abortion and clean energy split Iowa letters
Readers discuss health care reform focusing on abortion policy and federal mandates. They urge protections against taxpayer funded abortions and praise the American Clean Energy and Security Act for addressing global warming and corn yields in Iowa while urging Senate action.
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Congress
U.S. House
Iowa
Midwest
South
David Loebsack
Leonard Boswell
Bruce Braley
Tom Latham
Steve King
Tom Harkin
Chuck Grassley
Senate
Spencer Walrath
Cedar Rapids
Letters expose empathy critique in politics and local governance
Readers critique Republican use of compassion as a slogan while blaming Palin for Alaska's governance woes. Others support a Cedar Rapids return to a council-based system with strong elected leadership and elimination of city manager control.
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Jay
Joe
Cedar Rapids
David H. Burke
Cedar
Outcry Over CIA Planned Killings That Never Happened
A columnist argues that Democratic anger over a Bush era CIA plan to kill al Qaida leaders is misplaced since the plan was only a drawing board concept. He notes Congress was briefed on counterterrorism but no operatives were ever deployed and accuses Democrats of weaponizing the issue for political gain.
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New York Times
Leon Panetta
Congressional
Dick Cheney
al-Qaida
Bush
Cheney
Congress
Democratic Congress
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Feinstein
Michael Hayden
Obama
Panetta
Oral health must be included in health reform efforts
Donn Hutchins, president of Delta Dental of Iowa, argues that oral health is essential to overall health and should be funded through a private market dental system, not taxed corporate health plans. He contends dental care prevents costly treatments and stresses separate dental benefits for cost effectiveness.
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United States
Edna Brunkhorst Waverly
Congress
Donn Hutchins
Delta Dental of
Iowa
Dhutchins
Deltadentalia.com
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