Texas Lego ends amid tax cuts and school gains
Molly Ivins deconstructs the 76th Texas Legislature session noting ballooning revenues and risky tax cuts while praising education gains and highway spending. She singles out Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander for dramatic budget manipulation and lauds lawmakers like Rep. Paul Sadler and Sen. Florence Shapiro for specific reforms and actions.
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Public Citizen
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Houston
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Harvard
Hale Center
Corrections From The Gazette Weekend Notes
The Gazette prints corrections to Friday and Thursday Weekend Preview items. Cedar Rapids Parks Commissioner Dale Todd speaks at 12 30 p m today at Cedar Lake Park with a lake walk sponsored by Linn County Trails Association. A band called McLain 88 performs at Muddy Waters at 9 p m tonight. The Pinicon Ridge Park kids fishing derby in Central City starts at noon today. The newspaper notes it will publish corrections for inaccurate or incomplete reports and welcomes complaints at 398 8313.
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Dale Todd
Cedar Lake Park
Linn County Trails Association
McLain 88
Muddy Waters
Pinicon Ridge Park
Central City
Panel backs interior trunk release for child safety
A government panel recommends that all new cars include an interior trunk release by 2001 to prevent children from being trapped. The panel notes 11 deaths from trunk entrapments last summer and at least 19 in the past decade, urging an accessible emergency handle inside trunks.
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National Highway Traffic Safety Agency
Cedar Rapids Gazette promotes recycling ink and paper use
The Gazette highlights soybean ink and recycled news print and urges readers to recycle newspapers at City Carton on Sixth Street SW or nearby locations. It lists Cedar Rapids address details for the Gazette and rates for delivery and subscriptions.
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City Carton
Sixth St
Cedar Rapids Gazette
The
Gazette Company
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
U.S
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Co pilot says approach normal in Little Rock
The American Airlines jet crashed near Little Rock after a rain slick landing. First Officer Michael Origel, recovering from a broken leg, told investigators they approached normally and that the spoilers may not have deployed. Eight passengers and the pilot died. Ninety six survived. The NTSB probes pilot decisions weather and mechanical causes amid severe storm conditions.
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Michael Origel
Arkansas River
National Transportation Safety Board
George Black
Black
University Hospital
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