Love and death in Cedar Rapids reporter Wade Wagner
Wade Wagner, a KGAN-TV reporter, recently married but his wife died soon after the wedding. The piece sketches his decade of reporting in Russia and his romance with Lara Shabanova, a St. Petersburg tour guide, built through letters and telephone calls before Thanksgiving 1993.
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Wade Wagner
Lara
Russia
Mike Eilen Vazette
Wagner
Kgan-Tv
Channel 2
Cedar Rapids
Janet Wagner
Wade
Lara Shabanova
St. Petersburg
Iowa
Court limits government affirmative action ruling shifts policy
The Supreme Court ruling 5-4 bars most federal race based programs, labeling all racial classifications by government agencies presumptively invalid. A narrow exception allows limited remedies for proven discrimination, but broad use to address past injustices is rejected. The decision affects federal state and local programs including jobs contracts and college admissions.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
Supreme Court
Colorado
Nessman
Department of Transportation
Thurgood Marshall
Clarence Thomas
Thomas
O’connor
William Rehnquist
Anthony Kennedy
Antonin Scalia
John Paul Stevens
David Souter
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer
Chelsea Receives FEMA Move Ahead Grant For Flood Prone Areas
FEMA awards Chelsea 804 037 for 75 percent of costs to acquire 46 flood prone properties tear down structures and create open space. City aims to relocate residents to higher ground with a five to 15 year program costing at least 6 million and aided by local cash materials or services.
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Rodney Horrigan
Horrigan
Carol
U.S
Charles Grassley
Tom Harkin
Jim Nussle
Chelsea
Chelsea Resi
Dents
FEMA
Iowa Department of Economic Development
Farmers’ Home Administration
Regional Planning Commission
Iowa River
Otter Creek
Iowa GOP resists Alaska bid to swap caucus order
Iowa Republican leaders dismissed Alaska’s push to move up caucuses, framing it as a nonbinding challenge in the so called caucus wars. Gov. Branstad said Iowa would keep its Feb 12 caucus date unless Alaska proves a serious plan and candidate movement north.
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Iowa
Alaska
Rod Boshart
Des Moines
Nome
Alaska Gop
Land of the Midnight Sun
Republican Party
Brian Kennedy
Alaska Republican Central Committee
Terry Branstad
Louisiana
Branstad
Kennedy
Happy Joe's wins school contract
Cedar Rapids school board awards 21 000 pizzas for alterna tive school lunch to Happy Joe's. Local brief notes the contract and meal program.
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Happy Joe’s
Cedar Rapids
Indian team tests reversible male birth control injection
Indian scientists led by Sujoy Guha test a scrotal injection to sterilize men with a second shot to restore fertility. In humans 60 married men showed reduced fertilization after the chemical, which damages sperm membranes. WHO funds $10,000. project cost exceeds $160,000 with years more testing planned.
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New Delhi
India
International Planned Parenthood Federation
Sujoy Guha
Center For Biomedical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Guha
World Health Organization
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Tanya Henriksson
Greg Frostad
Gazette
Sandra Day O'Connor
Aazere
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Toledo
C.R. Man
Scott Carnes
Iowa Golf Association
Federal Communications Commission
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