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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 2000
Page
1
About 150 Iowa City residents calling themselves Congregating for Choice faced Wisconsin abortion opponents outside a local clinic on Wednesday. The confrontation highlighted disagreements over access and pricing.
Farmers Mutual Telephone Co. plans a 5,000 square foot expansion in Shellsburg. The project details appear on page 7B.
Tarsha Claiborne, accused of sending a racist email to the University of Iowa dental school, has been permitted to return to Louisiana while Johnson County court proceedings continue. The case details remain pending in the Iowa jurisdiction.
Sherry Gaffney Paige has been promoted from freshman coach to head girls basketball coach at Marion High School after four years on the sidelines. The move places her in charge of the varsity program with duties beginning immediately.
Cedar Rapids Czech Village hosts the Houby Days Festival with a houby breakfast a mushroom hunt and a kolache eating contest attracting local residents and visitors to the Czech Village event.
Outdoor Friday Gazette reports a proposed rule to shield timber rattlesnakes from commercial harvest and indiscriminate killing.
Three independent economists review the seven year Corps study on upper Mississippi river lock expansion and find the analysis of demand and elasticity questionable. The new report supports the whistleblower claims that enlarging seven locks is not economically justified and cites inconsistent forecasts.
NIH study of 412 adults on 14 weeks of low-salt diets shows participants on produce-rich menus had larger drops in systolic and diastolic pressures than those on a typical American diet. Both groups reduced salt intake and benefited, with overall recommended limit 2,400 mg daily.
Iowa climber Chuck Huss plans a five day ascent starting Friday from Everest base camp to reach the summit around May 23 if weather holds. He and others in the Everest Environmental Expedition 2000 have waited since May 4 due to storms, with the area stabilizing recently. A related slide show of the April Cedar Rapids team will be at 7 p.m. at the National Czech Slovak Museum.
A Money and Politics Iowa report shows local legislative campaigns up 36 percent from two years ago as Rep. Pat Shey and peers explain higher costs and ongoing fundraising. Shey spent 177,665 on a December 1999 special election campaign and expects under 50,000 for a full-term re‑election. The study notes sums triple over seven years, with 1999 non election year totals surpassed by 1.37 million in 1999 as AGC of Iowa led contributions in a year with no election.
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