Expel the secrecy in Cedar Rapids schools
Editorial commends Cedar Rapids Community School Board for expelling students for drugs and weapons but condemns the secrecy. The piece urges releasing ages grades and schools of expelled students and argues for transparent explanations to inform the community and deter others.
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Cedar YY Xs Community
Cedar Rapids
Georgia women’s coach pay gap case highlights Title IX
USA Today reports comparable worth in college sports as the University of Georgia pays men and women differently. Andy Landers earns 99 080 while the women’s coach makes 58 160, a gap cited as potential Equal Pay Act and Title IX violation by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.
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NCAA
USA Today
University OF Georgia
Andy Landers
Tim Stoner
Women’s Basketball Coaches Association
Righting common writing errors by Carl Kane
A compact guide noting frequent slipups in style and grammar. It covers inaccuracy in phrasing such as in self surrender, precise time references, inversion in there are constructions, overstatement of actions as verbal, Shakespearean misquotes, and misused foreign terms like au jus.
Vision and bureaucracy clash in Cedar Rapids city hall
A Cedar Rapids resident argues that elected officials are losing control to entrenched bureaucrats in city departments. He cites Asbury House affordable housing project as emblem of obstructive bureaucracy and calls for reorganization, citing the Roger Commission and Fisher study as pathways to restore a people centered vision.
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Cedar Rapids
Independent Hatters
Guaranty Bank
Guy Linville
Howard Hall
Sutherland Dows
Bourke Hickenlooper
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Texas
Asbury United Methodist Church
Building Department
Planning and Redevelopment Department
Asbury House
27Th Ave
Commission On Comprehensive
27Th Avenues
Board of Adjustment
Roger
Terry Branstad
Fisher
Great American Meat Out Day questions health bias
Audrey E. Rahn of Cedar Rapids argues that meatless days and anti smoking campaigns receive unequal support. She notes meat and tobacco both pose health risks and challenges to farmers, questioning financial priorities in health advocacy. March 20 marks the 10th annual Meat Out Day.
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Iowa
Health care hoax alarm targets Clinton toll on cigarettes
A public letter warns that a new federal cigarette tax and Clinton health care plan will destroy jobs and personal paychecks. It urges readers to write Senator Harkin, Senator Leach, and Senator Grassley to oppose the tax and the health care proposal.
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Clintons
Congress
Clinton
Harkin
Leach
Grassley
America
Prime Time biased coverage sparks family dispute
E Knapp of Central City vents about a TV feature on the Schmidts and DeBoers accusing the program of unfair bias against Jessica. He argues lifestyle and honesty weigh more than money in parenting and community standing.
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Schmidts
Jessica
DeBoers
Dan
E. Knapp
Central City
Correction to Thursday letter from Art Evens on bad science
A transcription error in Thursday's letter from Art Evens of Cedar Rapids misstated the second sentence. The correct wording says the headline Why bad science can't be good education is 100 percent accurate, but the editorial is 180 degrees off the mark.
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Art Evens
Cedar Rapids
Critics doubt Clinton probes will uncover proof
The text argues Rep. Jim Leach searches for hidden links to a failed Arkansas savings and loan but has found nothing after two years. It criticizes leaders Reagan and Bush for causing widespread misery and dismisses prior probes such as Rep. Nuska’s House bank expose as lacking indictments.
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Jim Leach
Clinton
Arkansas Savings and Loan
Rep. Nussle
House Bank
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