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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 2002
Page
1
Freedom Festival launches with the BBQ Roundup, flag raisings, and essays on freedom. The event highlights a community celebration featuring student contributions and activities across multiple sections.
Southeast Iowa offers a pampered golf experience at Spirit Hollow Golf Course in Burlington. The course draws players with its rolling greens and coaching notes from local writers.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled 2-1 that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in schools is unconstitutional because the phrase under God endorses religion. The 9th U S Circuit Court overturned the 1954 act adding the phrase.
Judge Alfred T. Goodwin notes the pledge could be read as under any god or none while a Cedar Rapids media specialist Mary Ann Gensicke led Monroe Elementary in pushing to fund books explaining the pledge to children. She vowed to fight to keep the phrase in the pledge.
WorldCom employees in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City brace for job cuts after the company disclosed massive financial improprieties. The firm plans to lay off 17,000 worldwide as it halted stock trading amid revelations of nearly 4 billion dollars of improperly booked expenses.
A Marion family mourns son Todd Little who died at 19 during track practice in 1999. His memorial on the Indian Creek Nature Trail near Thomas Park survived part of a recent flood but was damaged, with flowers benches a marble stone and an eternal flame recalled by locals who visit daily.
The state enacts higher filing and jury trial fees in clerk of court offices to offset budget cuts. Civils and small claims rise to $100 per action with increases spurring about $3 million more annually. Roxann Repstien notes the journey from $4 to $100 for civil filing. legislators say this budget fix targets court operations.
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