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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 2000
Page
1
Ken Kendall, a University of Iowa student on a ventilator, vows to resist being placed in a nursing home by state authorities while asserting his independence. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve raised interest rates again Tuesday to cool the economy, and Wall Street absorbed the news with casual trading.
Bryan Kempt of Cedar Rapids Kennedy, a first team all state football pick, earns Class 4A basketball first team honors by the Iowa Newspaper Association. A teenage driver study notes high teen passenger counts. Maryland police fatally shoot a suspect after freeing the final hostages in a string of killings.
A Marion student hopes a prom date ad in Thursday's Gazette draws attention. The brief notice, placed in Youth Plus, signals a lighthearted page of campus notices.
The Supreme Court rules the FDA lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, 5 to 4, overturning the 1996 assertion. Justice O'Connor notes tobacco's public health threat but says Congress did not grant FDA power, shifting action back to lawmakers. The decision dampens Clinton era anti smoking efforts and risks continued congressional inaction.
AIA Realty Commercial reports Cedar Rapids Hiawatha and Marion see a sharp rise in retail space and strong apartment construction. Retail space rose about 12 percent in the year, with Westdale Mall activity and new SuperTarget and Wal Mart supercenter openings noted. Vacancy remains around 5 percent, and the report forecasts more big box retailers and Coral Ridge Mall expansion.
Brad and Brendan Birdnow ask Cedar Rapids School District to withdraw Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone from libraries. They present to the PTA Reconsideration Committee at 4 15 p m at the Educational Service Center to review retention or withdrawal while citing occult concerns. Librarians report high reader appeal and parent approval, with few local objections. Local writer Becky Stover filed the report.
Linn-Mar eighth graders led by Kristen Crabtree Jones launch an email campaign to transfer a mahogany table from Terrace Hill to Iolani Palace in Honolulu. The table, owned by the state since 1969, was donated by Elizabeth Woods in the 1930s and returned to the palace in 1978 after a tour guide noted its 1880s presence in the Hawaiian palace.
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