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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 2007
Page
4
The editorial praises the funnel as a time sieve for bills in the Iowa General Assembly. It notes first and second funnel deadlines of March 9 and April 6, which filter non money bills and shape debate as sessions wind down. Lawmakers accept the process as standard procedure.
Readers press Congress to back 1.4 billion dollars for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria and to urge Rep Dave Loebsack to sign the Stop Tuberculosis Now Act of 2007. The plan aims to halve TB deaths by 2015 and end TB as a global health problem by 2050.
A Rand Corp conference signals a pivot away from imminent U S or Israeli strikes on Iran. Experts warn bombing would worsen Iraq outcomes, boost Iran's nuclear push, and call for renewed diplomatic options and sanctions instead.
The AARP plans 40 town hall meetings in Iowa to spotlight health care costs insurance Social Security and long term care. The effort aims to mobilize voters and press presidential candidates for concrete plans before the January caucuses.
Members of the American Association of University Women urge Iowa to boost early childhood education. They criticize Senate File 350 and House File 527 for insufficient preschool hours and argue for expanding all day Head Start rather than creating a new limited program. They cite low funding and a waiting list in Linn County and rank Iowa 25th in state preschool funding. Carolyn Schmidt.
A World Tuberculosis Day item urges Rep. Loebsack to back funding for TB programs. It notes TB remains a major global killer, with about 9 million new cases annually and nearly 2 million deaths, and cites an outbreak of extensively drug resistant TB in South Africa killing over 50 patients.
A reader argues for a tax on processed foods containing sodium nitrate to fund health care, citing cancer risks and leukemia links from high consumption. The letter notes personal abstention from such foods and asks where others were when lawmakers act on health issues.
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