Cedar Rapids weighs pawnshop fee and data sharing
The Cedar Rapids City Council delayed final approval of a new pawnshop transaction fee to study costs and alternatives. City managers plan a broader review of service fees and data sharing, with suggestions to use electronic data streams like LeadsOnline and the Minneapolis Automated Pawn System to track pawned items and reduce police workload.
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Cedar Rapids Council faces traffic, smoking, and pawn tax questions
Letter writers urge fixes for Marilyn Drive NE traffic and unsafe school crossings and demand street plowing after freezes. They push for a citywide smoking ban and 10 foot outside distances. A Mis ter Money Pawn Shop manager objects to a new per transaction fee and voting over new taxes. A columnist links donor egg and adoption practices to global inequality. Not sure if Cedar Rapids should approve a $1 pawn and sales tax.
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Tax policy debate on oil tax breaks and renewables
Voters weigh cutting $18 billion in oil industry tax breaks to fund renewables. GazetteOnline prompts daily questions. includes editorials on snow runoff, river pollution, and follow ups by reader William Meyer and Laurie Frisch Marion.
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Heart transplant gift gives life to friend after donor's sacrifice
Susan Estrich writes of American Heart Month and how a 19 year old donor's heart saved her friend Pam after a life with heart disease. The piece honors the donor family, notes the rarity of transplants, and underscores gratitude for life given through organ donation.
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