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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 2017
Page
1
Cedar Rapids gears up for the annual SaPaDaPaSo parade with green themes and community participation. City organizers expect residents to line streets for floats, music, and seasonal festivities marking the local celebration.
A legislative plan would eliminate the 13 percent decrease Community Development Block Grant and the 35 million Section 4 Community Development and Affordable Housing program. The blocks supported flood protection for Cedar Rapids and funded downtown revitalization, homelessness services, Meals on Wheels, and more. Iowa's Community Housing Initiatives used the latter to provide over 1,600 affordable housing units.
The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities face elimination of all 148 million dollar funding. Iowa groups like the Iowa Arts Council funded hundreds of events reaching about one million residents while emergency grants aided preservation projects after the 2008 flood at sites such as an 1876 Coralville schoolhouse and the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids.
The VA budget increases by 6 percent to expand access to doctors. A VA watchdog report found over 1,200 veterans at the Iowa City hospital were assigned to ghost panels with primary care doctors not actively providing care in early 2016. AmeriCorps is named among 19 agencies to be eliminated, with more than 1,500 members active in Iowa.
Ed Tibbetts reports that the White House budget outline proposes a 21 percent cut to USDA discretionary spending, trimming the department to 17.9 billion and eliminating a 498 million water and wastewater loan program. The plan but does not specify cuts to food stamps or crop subsidies, while promising savings of 95 million from duplicative Rural Business programs.
Iowa House approves a major rewrite of the 104 year old workers compensation law. Republicans say the change balances a lawyer driven system and helps businesses compete by shaping a simpler process for workplace injury claims. The bill aims to reduce litigation costs while protecting employees.
More than 20 Republican and Democratic senators press President Trump to deny requests from oil refiners, including a White House advisor, to shift biofuels requirements downstream. The move faces backlash from corn ethanol producers and fuel retailers as Iowa, the top ethanol producer, weighs in.
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