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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1996
Page
4
The Cedar Rapids Community School District plans to cut remedial reading programs next year in six elementary schools due to a loss of over 300000 in federal funds. Most teachers will be retained through seniority, retirements, and resignations, but the change raises questions about funding and the impact on 350 students needing reading support.
Cable documentaries and films reveal HUAC era paranoia and blacklisting in the 1940s and 1950s. The pieces focus on persecuted entertainment figures such as Howard Koch and Robert Taylor, urging viewers to read more and question the era’s deemed virtue.
Neil Fallon of Wellington Heights cautions Cedar Rapids residents about the home rule charter. He argues a strong mayor concentrates power with power brokers, harming the city soul, housing, and neighborhood initiatives, and notes past issues under Mayor Don Canney.
A reader letters page attack on the Republican religious right accuses them of seeking control over sex and behavior while ignoring hog lot pollution and violence against women. The writer urges focus on love and policy over moral tightrope acts and calls for action on hog waste and violence.
Publication deadline set for letters to editor by noon Wednesday March 6. Brief submissions favored to improve chance of printing.
The Feb 27 Gazette notes Sen Jim Lind proposes tax credits giving $1 toward a state lottery for every $1 paid in state income tax. Lind calls it an incentive to pay taxes and promote the lottery, while critics question costs, advertising funding, and the impact on tax revenue.
The Gazette announces letters and guest columns may be printed but not all will be used. Submissions must include full name signature address and daytime phone. Anonymous letters are not accepted. Limit 300 words per letter and 700 words for columns. mailed to Cedar Rapids Gazette Box 511 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406 or faxed to 319 398 5846.
A reader questions PETA's lobster cruelty claims and questions the ethics of releasing captured lobsters. The letter challenges animal rights rhetoric while suggesting more practical activism and referencing local Cedar Rapids figures.
Robert Bast of Toddville argues that shared road spaces and two abreast cyclists on fast highways create danger for both cyclists and motorists. He cites beeps, nonverbal signals, and failure to yield as part of a broader dispute over bike lanes and legislation.
A letter from B Wold of Saint Olaf Iowa argues the park metal tree is Norwegian in design and identical to a Rosette icon, preferring live trees over the sculpture.
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