Cedar Rapids to host downtown farmers market with carrot stunt
The Gazette urges Cedar Rapids to relocate the farmers market to Second Street SE for June through September, with live music cooking demos and kid activities. Organizers expect revived downtown vitality after decades of weekend decline, drawing on lessons from Moline and Des Moines markets and inviting community support.
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Cedar Rapids
Czech Village
Riverside Roundhouse
Second Street
Moline
Ill
Front runners Clinton and McCain polarize parties amid protests
The piece contrasts Hillary Clinton and John McCain as front runners facing antiwar hecklers and liberal critics. It notes Clinton’s centrist shifts aided by fundraising ties to Rupert Murdoch and McCain’s move toward the right after a liberal stance. It also mentions MAHP leadership changes in Cedar Rapids. The column urges a center grounded national contest focused on solutions.
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John McCain
New School
New York
Arizona
Clinton
McCain
Clintons
National Press Club
Bush
Iraq
Rupert Murdoch
Bill Clinton
Souljah
Jesse Jackson
Hillary Clinton
Murdoch
Sen
Jerry Falwell
Liberty University
Lynchburg
Falwell
Pat Robertson
Louis Farrakhan
al Sharpton
Jon Stewart
Daily Show
Colin Powell
Evidence in Meskwaki Settlement case called a house of deceit
The speaker warns that deceit collapses like a card house and demands honesty in government. He cites a “storm of evidence” in the Meskwaki Indian Settlement at Tama and vows accountability for builders of deceit, invoking Lincoln’s maxim about truth.
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Tama
Abraham Lincoln
Letters on the June 6 primary must be received by Tuesday
The Gazette invites letters for publication by Tuesday to reflect community ideas. The piece notes MidAmerica Housing Partnership’s Doug Wagner as president CEO and calls for accountability for slot machine profits and potential lawsuits directed at the Iowa introducer, the approving authority, Lottery Director Ed Stanek, and the governing body that approved without a public ballot.
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Doug Wagner
MidAmerica Housing Partnership
Lottery
Ed Stanek
TouchPlay Ouster Hurts Businesses Statewide
Legislators ended TouchPlay lottery games cutting off a $30 million annual revenue stream. Some propose redirecting the funds to businesses proving financial loss from the premature halt, instead of continuing payouts. If TouchPlay had continued, the state would collect rather than pay out that $30 million.
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TouchPlay
Mystery of six thousand TouchPlay slot machines in Iowa
The piece notes six thousand TouchPlay slot machines appeared in Iowa and questions who found them, who offered them at the state level, who valued them as economic assets, who had authority to approve distribution, and who benefited.
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Midas
Iowa
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