Herky on Parade fills southern Iowa with decorated hawk statues
The Herky on Parade public art campaign launches with 75 decorated Hawkeye statues across southern Iowa. University partners and Cedar Rapids organizers coordinate the display through summer into football season, mirroring national programs. Vic Klopfenstein earns a Community Builder award from the Cedar Rapids foundation amid other honors. Jim Zalesky earns induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame alongside three others for his Hawkeye wrestling career.
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Iowa
University of Iowa
Hawkeyes
America
Cedar Rapids
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Josh Schamberger
Herky
University Athletic Department
Visitors Bureau
Marion
Vic Klopfenstein
Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation
Klopfenstein
Red Cross
Betty Hargraves
Jim Zalesky
Zalesky
National Wrestling Hall of Fame
Iowa Events Center feud tests public records access
Polk County seeks to keep the 217 million Iowa Events Center financial study secret claiming trade secrets while a judge calls the notion ludicrous and says public scrutiny is blocked for three months. Also notes senior citizens face Medicare drug card signups and Beta Theta Pi chapter safety violations at the University of Iowa.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Polk County
Des Moines Register
Medicare.gov
Medicare
Beta Theta Pi
University of Iowa
No-Guilty Verdict in Linn County Case Sparks Mixed Reactions
Letters express taxpayer outrage over defense case costs while praising lawyers for C J Goddard’s acquittal in the Kayla Blahnik murder trial. Others discuss Pat Tillman, war, and patriotism citing Band of Brothers and NFL star Robert Gallery’s draft hero label.
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Linn County
C.J. Goddard
Kayla Blahnik
the Gazette
Linn
Pat Tillman
NFL
Iraq
Europe
Pacific
Free World
Tillman
Brian Hamrick
Springville
Cost Savings in Police Gear and Student Health Wins
Letter writer urges Cedar Rapids to cut pricey tech like $4,800 squad laptops and reuse cheap tools such as a $5 map and $1 notepad. Also praises Kennedy students teaming with vendors for healthier school vending machines, restocked daily.
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Cedar Rapids
Phil Peters
Kennedy
Brokaw Vending
The case for language restraint in Deadwood era carnage
Theodore Roszak, a professor and author, argues against excess profanity in media, praising restrained writing over gore and repeated obscenity. He cites MASH and The Deer Hunter as early fangled uses while noting modern dialogue leans on cheap vulgarity. He calls for quotas or a language reform to curb expletives and preserve linguistic punch. He mentions his book The Devil and Daniel Silverman.
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Martin Scorsese
Charles Dickens
Ring Lardner
David Mamet
Tony Soprano
Deadwood
America
Clark Gable
Robert Altman
Michael Cimino
Holden Caulfield
Holden
Writers Guild
Language Association
Theodore Roszak
California State University At
Hayward
the Devil
Daniel Silverman
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Tyler Johnston
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Sgt
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White House
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