Covenant marriage gains support within churches urges pastors
The Southern Baptist Convention meeting in New Orleans urged pastors to persuade couples to avoid quick divorces through covenant marriage within congregations. Critics warn state laws create two tracks, harming the couple’s options while churches could guide troubled unions with counseling and prenup education.
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Associated Press
Super Baptists
Linn County
Modesto
Calif
Iowa hires journalist as first open records ombudsman
The State of Iowa names Robert Anderson as the new open records ombudsman, moving from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He starts July 6 after a background in Alabama and Missouri journalism and aims to educate officials about the open records law following a 14-paper investigation that exposed widespread noncompliance by local police, schools, and agencies.
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Robert Anderson
Freedom of Information Center
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Alabama
Missouri
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Gazette
Des Moines Register
Anderson
Free trade as a moral imperative and global plan
President Bush frames free trade as a moral imperative that creates jobs, supports democracy, and improves human rights while benefiting farmers who feed the world. He urges renewal of trade-promotion authority to advance the Free Trade Area of the Americas and urges leadership to reduce tariffs and subsidies for a more prosperous, freer world.
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Council of the Americas
Washington, D.C
Free Trade
Quebec
Americas
Point Barrow
Alaska
Tierra del Fuego
Chile
United States
Congress
Gerald Ford
Bill Clinton
Clinton
Letter equates homosexuals to oppressors and calls for moral standards
A June 16 letter argues against gay rights by likening oppression to the Inquisition and Nazi regime, insisting sexual orientation is a choice and labeling the gay lifestyle as dangerous while defending the right to discriminate. The writer condemns equality efforts and urges adherence to traditional moral standards.
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Boy Scouts
The Gazette Letters Policy Summary
The Gazette invites letters up to 300 words and requires name street address and daytime phone. Only name and hometown are published. One letter per writer every 30 days. letters may be edited. Include full contact details for submission: Box 511 Cedar Rapids IA 52406 fax and email.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Grammar rule on there agreeing with series of nouns
The author discusses a rule cited by Theodore Bernstein in The Dos and Don'ts and Maybes of English Usage about there introducing a noun list. When the first noun is plural the verb should be plural, but many prefer a singular verb with a singular head noun. Bernstein notes this may be technically wrong yet practical.
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Hugo Kann
Marion
Theodore Bernstein
Bernstein
Citizens oppose East Post Road extension plan in Cedar Rapids
A grass-roots movement opposes Cedar Rapids city plans to extend East Post Road south to Highway 30 and expand to five lanes. The letter argues the project harms Linn County’s residential areas, invites nonlocal traffic, raises taxes, and benefits commercial interests over quality of life. Kate Hawkins commends the council for listening, urging balance over traffic growth.
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Cedar Rapids
East Post Road
Mount Vernon Road
Eastpostroad
Freeservers
Linn County
Edgewood Road
Dan Cook
Highway 13
Mount Vernon
Kate Hawkins
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