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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1978
Page
4
Iowa lawmakers push a July 1 start for new tax and government reform measures. The package boosts city road funds, bans anonymous closed sessions, expands open negotiations with public employees, and ends a farmland tax haven for city farmers while preserving enhanced public disclosure and new sunshine provisions.
Lawmakers in Des Moines battled late Saturday over key bills as they haggled on usury rates for home loans and conference panels approved changes to conflict of interest ethics and juvenile offender reforms. Negotiations continued amid end of session humor and minor roving distractions in the rotunda.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established 1883 by the Gazette Company publishes daily and Sunday at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa. Subscription rates by carrier 1.15 per week and by mail 5 174 weeks 56.00 52 weeks. No more subscriptions accepted in areas with Gazette carrier service. The Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
Attorney General Griffin Bell said the legal profession overreacted to President Carter’s charge that some lawyers profit from defending big crooks while the poor lack adequate counsel. Bell urged unity to improve the justice system and defend the profession.
Scientists at the University of California at Davis report success in cultivating experimental crops using sea water, according to National Geographic.
In a dreary Friday session, lawmakers failed to advance energy and utility bills. They passed a solar property tax exemption and directed the Energy Policy Council to study solar ideas, but rejected measures on conservation, mass transit, and rate case reforms, preserving the council with emergency powers for a possible governor intervention.
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