Redistrict Iowa City schools to address growth and equity
The Gazette editorial urges redrawing Iowa City school boundaries to balance high school capacity on the west side and City High resources, and to reduce poverty concentration at seven of 24 elementary schools. Superintendent Lane Plugge has consulted UI demographers as a first step, calling for broad community involvement.
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Fourth of July events and public letters from Cedar Rapids readers
A reader recounts attending Freedom Festival cricket at Seminole Valley and Wild West Days at Ushers Ferry, praising Indian players as ambassadors and a Cedar Rapids band. Letters criticize Glenn Chatfield on LGBT rights and defend President Obama’s health care push, noting media access issues and political vitriol.
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Seminole Valley
India
Ushers Ferry
Cedar Rapids
Darren Crow
Hiawatha
Trux
Nearby sex offenders risk to kids near Shelter House
Residents of Hill top Mobile Home Park oppose a new Shelter House adjacent to their park citing a July 1 Iowa law barring sexual offenders near places children gather. HACAP day care sits across the street within the exclusion zone, with 80 to 100 children using nearby school buses. They question Shelter House screening of clients and urge the city council to relocate and hold a public debate on a safer site.
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Hilltop Mobile Home Park
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Day of reckoning for health insurers faces Congress
In a column addressing health care reform, the author cites rescission by Blue Cross Blue Shield and other firms as a stubborn flaw in private insurance. Testimony before a House subcommittee details thousands of canceled policies, hundreds of millions saved, and insurer resistance to limits on rescissions.
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California
Robin Beaton
House Energy and Commerce Committee
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Bart Stupak
D-Mich
Governing through Denial and Budget Woes in Iowa
Todd Dorman warns Iowa readers that Gov. Chet Culver faces a looming budget shortfall of about 903 million as revenues fall and reserves dwindle. The column argues Culver must show competence or risk political trouble, noting calls for possible special sessions and comparisons to past budgets.
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Fantasyland
Bob Vander Plaats
Denial
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Christopher Rants
Tom Vilsack
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Doug Gross
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