Bus Route Retooling Aims to Expand Cedar Rapids Service
Five Seasons Transportation proposes to keep midday bus service while restructuring routes to reach Rompot Westwood Stoney Point North Bowman Woods and east Marion. A temporary full time transit analyst would study and implement changes over about 15 months at an estimated cost of 40 thousand dollars. The plan would standardize hourly departures from the Ground Transportation Center and could boost ridership while saving about 151 thousand dollars annually.
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Five Seasons Transportation
Cedar Rapids
Bill Hoekstra
Doug Forbes
Dave Snyder
Snyder
Rompot
Westwood
Stoney Point
Bowman Woods
East Marion
Westdale
Wal-Mart
Hoekstra
Efficiency and Reform Committee
Transit Department
Forbes
Brian Covington
Reform
Gingrich urges balanced budget plan to avoid amendment
In Georgia on Monday Speaker Newt Gingrich argued Republicans will unveil a seven year deficit cut plan to balance the budget by 2002 without cutting Social Security. He said senators who opposed the measure could be pressed to switch votes and warned the political cover for tough choices may come from the public demand for new leadership. Americans could elect new leaders again in November 1996.
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Gingrich
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Kent Conrad
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Conrad
Ee Ouse
Newt Gingrich
Opinion: Don’t weaken power of Congress by Loewenberg
The piece argues that the Republican Contract with America threatens Congress by seeking an item veto, slashing committees and staffs, and imposing a three-fifths requirement for tax increases, risking diminished legislative independence and oversight.
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Congress
House
Republicans and Congress face a shifting balance of power
A guest column argues fourth changes block unfunded state mandates and a looming balanced budget amendment would curb congressional power over budgets and debt. It suggests Republicans may seek presidency to fill ensuing vacuum, while voters want solutions and care about long-term, unintended consequences of constitutional shifts. Gerhard Loewenberg notes these dynamics.
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Senate
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White House
House of Representatives
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Would Christ support capital punishment debate
A reader questions biblical justification for the death penalty, arguing Genesis 9 6 is misread and that literalists historically misapply scripture. The letter also critiques public figures and urges reflection on Christ s stance toward execution.
War memories and a veteran’s rebuttal to Dresden critiques
A reader's letter from Henry Leonard Manchester argues every operation is a military action and defends Allied bombing of Dresden. He recalls his service with the Bushmasters in the Philippines and urges understanding of war’s casualties, urging veterans’ perspectives. He cites Allied actions and combats Nazi crimes while condemning pacifist views.
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Dresden
Germany
Renee Blakeman
Hitler
Blakeman
Joachim Peiper
SS Panzer
Malmed
158Th R.C.T
Philippines
Henry Leonard Manchester
Drug solution Get involved in fighting teen drug use
Glen Mixdorf from Cedar Rapids argues solutions exist but are not used. He cites failures across home schools courts and social services and urges parents to be involved, ask questions, know friends, attend school activities and stay aware of community issues.
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KCRG
Soap Box
ACLU
Glen Mixdorf
Cedar Rapids
Gazette invites reader letters up to 300 words
The Gazette accepts letters up to 300 words. Writers must include name street address and daytime phone. only name and hometown appear in print. Address submissions to Cedar Rapids Gazette Box 511 Cedar Rapids IA 52406, or use listed fax, email and online services.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Gazette Net
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Compuserve.com
Sure-Fire Writing Tips and Snippets from a Newspaper Page
A collection of notes on grammar and language usage includes a museum replica of Yohanan the crucified, a quip about nails, quiz questions on grammar, and a concert misprint for Brahms. Other items mention a bank visit to explain payroll services and a retired rail worker described as “nice work if you can get it.”
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Yohanan
Louise White
Joyce Seip
Sigourney
Joyce
Brahm
Brahms
Marilyn Deppe
Grinnell
The
Burlington Northern Railroad
Cathy Lloyd
Washington, Iowa
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Ulla Wall
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