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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 2001
Page
4
Mark Bowden, Executive Editor Jerry Elsen, Editorial Pages Editor and Board Chairman Dave Storey, Scott Swenson Advertising VP, Peg Schmitz Circulation Director, GAZETTE COMMUNICATIONS Inc. leaders Joe Hladky Chairman Publisher Chuck Peters President COO Ken Slaughter EVP CFO listed.
Editorial notes Sen. Grassley introduced a bill providing federal grants for manure to energy technology. While benefiting a few thousand farmers and reducing federal revenue, advocates cite environmental gains from methane capture and potential cost savings as energy prices rise. The proposal invites tax breaks and calls for research into better waste to energy methods.
Cedar Rapids Gazette luminary Gus Schrader covered Hawkeyes with energy and range. He wrote front page sports and his Red Peppers column while shaping Iowa sports lore for 45 years. He mentored a culture while helping name the Nile Kinnick Stadium. He died last week at age 79.
Printing readers letters carries no endorsement of facts or opinions by the Gazette. Corrections or disagreements by others may be published in equal measure.
The essay revisits John Adams and his four year presidency in contrast with Richard Nixon and Harry Truman. It argues McCullough’s Adams biography rekindles a pre television era America while tracing lingering Adamsism through Alien and Sedition Acts, Palmer raids, Japanese American internment, McCarthyism, Hoover, and Nixon era paranoia.
Kevin D. Smith of Cedar Rapids complains that local officials in Coralville and Iowa City gave unclear route details for this year’s RAGBRAI and failed to provide a definitive map or emergency guidance despite multiple calls on July 25. He questions intercity coordination and accuracy of the posted routes.
The Fair Tax Act of 2001 was introduced as HR 2525 in the U S House of Representatives on July 18. Proponents argue it would allow taxpayers to keep 100 percent of their paychecks and choose what to tax, simplifying federal revenue and expanding personal budgets.
The Gazette invites letters up to 300 words with required full name street address and daytime phone. Only name and hometown will be published. One letter per writer every 30 days. anonymous submissions not allowed. edits may occur. Contact Cedar Rapids Iowa box 511 or fax 319 398 5846 or email gazedit fyiowa com.
Ruth A. Ehrhardt supports the council Hy-Vee partnership for the First Avenue site. She argues upgrading the supermarket serves Wellington Heights and Mound View, preserving affordable housing areas and providing groceries as a basic quality of life need. Ehrhardt praises the city Hy-Vee collaboration as citizens’ people business.
Gary L. Mayden warns that the 1976 tax changes encouraging borrowing via cash-out refinances lower homeowner equity and raise payments. He notes rising loan-to-value practices and speculative appraisals risk a housing bubble and deeper recession, urging caution before cashing out equity.
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