All-Metro boys' basketball team highlights Kennedy players
The 1987 88 All Metro boys basketball team features a rookie center and a veteran point guard both from Cedar Rapids Kennedy. Tom Davis reaches 50 wins faster than any current Iowa coach but Pops Harrison holds the all time Iowa record for fastest 50. The Mesquakie Indian Settlement welfare decision is reversed by the Iowa Department of Human Services. A single engine crash near North Liberty claims a fourth victim. An Iowa man pleads guilty to killing a Puerto Rican woman and receives suspended sentence. Robert Frank convicted in Cedar Rapids for aiding a Dubuque judge's home fire. Cedar Rapids Community School Board votes to drop middle school electives.
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Cedar Rapids Kennedy
Tom Davis
Iowa
Hawkeye
Big Ten
Pops Harrison
Page IC
Robert Frank
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Today’s Chuckle Stock Market Quip
A light joke notes that in March a trader’s month may lie low then vanish like a lamb, hinting at market swings with a pun on months and actions.
Iowa Senate votes to raise fuel tax and truck fees
Iowa lawmakers approve a plan to raise gasoline and diesel taxes by 2 cents per gallon on April 1 and another 2 cents on January 1, 1989. The measure adds a $20 truck registration hike, aims to generate about $102 million over 20 months, and directs the revenue to city county and state governments under a temporary split.
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Ken Sullivan
ES Moines
Iowa Senate
AIDS test safeguards pass House
Iowans will be guaranteed confidentiality for AIDS testing under a bill approved by the Iowa House on an 88-6 vote. Rep. Johnie Hammond urged replacing fear with changes in high risk behavior as the measure moved to the Senate.
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Judy Daubenmier
Des Moines
ES Moines
Hammond
Iowa House approves AIDS legislation provisions
The Iowa House advances a bill to protect AIDS test confidentiality and counseling while restricting testing as a job qualification. It would require pre test and post test counseling and allow minors to be tested without parental notification with a chosen adult informed if results are positive.
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Iowa
Arson charge filed after Cedar Rapids apartment fire
Jonathan Tate of 1408 Fourth Ave SE is charged with first degree arson after a 3:37 PM blaze heavily damaged Sylvester Balew's upper apartment at 1261 Fourth Ave SE. Tate, held without bond, faces up to 25 years if convicted. investigators say a prior quarrel preceded the fire.
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Jonathan Tate
Fourth Ave. SE
Sylvester Balew
Tate
Balew
Azette
Cedar Rapids
Fourth Ave
Linn County
U of I to require English test for foreign assistants
University of Iowa will require non native English speaking teaching assistants to pass an English proficiency test to teach undergraduate courses next fall. The program uses two tests, one on listening and a five minute lecture followed by questions, with outcomes rating readiness to teach.
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U of I
Lyle Muller
Jonnson County
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Kenneth Moll
U of
U of I’s
Moll
Iowa State University
Iowa farmland values rise further in 1987 survey
A Chicago Federal Reserve survey of about 500 Midwest bankers notes Iowa farmland values up 13 percent from last year, with high quality land at 9.7 percent and per acre values rising from 1 048 to 1 150. Iowa leads five states in annual gains while overall Midwestern farmland is up about 7 percent from 1986 lows.
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Champaign
Ill
Iowa
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Iowa State University
Iowa Realtors Land Institute
Vember
ISU
Micheal Duffy
Ames
Iowa State University Extension
Federal Reserve Bank
Duffy
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Midwestern
Om ing Tomorrow Do Dirty Words Make a Dirty World
A commentary piece explores how language shapes culture and behavior. It weighs the impact of profanity on social norms and public discourse, considering whether lingering crude terms reflect or drive moral decline.
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Senate
Broccoli
Metro
Iowa Department of Human Services
Mesquakie
North Liberty
Abby Pee
Greene
U.S
Gazette
L.W. Ward
U of 1
Barbara Plakans
Gazette Wire Services
Chicago
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