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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 2000
Page
2
A columnist vents over the Florida recount and national distrust while noting Iowa State University Cyclones will play in a bowl game for the first time in 22 years. He reflects on elections and ballots in four counties and urges resolution. Mike Deupree writes Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
In Palm Beach County Florida Democrats had TeleQuest call about 5 000 voters as polls closed to warn of possible ballot confusion on punch card ballots. The calls urged voters who thought they mis punched a hole to return to polls and have their names noted.
The Gazette highlights using soybean ink and recycled newsprint to support farming. Readers are urged to drop newspapers for recycling at City Carton on Sixth Street SW or at nearby local recycling locations.
The Postal Rate Commission approved an overall rate hike of 4.6 percent, boosting first class stamps to 34 cents and raising other rates while keeping 20 cent postcards unchanged. A new one pound Priority Mail rate of 3.50 is set, with changes in per-ounce charges up to 11 ounces and a trimmed contingency fund. The Board of Governors will announce the effective date, likely in early December.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear whether judges or juries decide excessive force in arrests. Elliott Katz, an animal rights activist, sued Army private Donald Saucier for restraining him during Vice President Gore's 1994 speech at the Presidio. Katz claims the officers threw him into a van after unfurling a banner.
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