Clean energy urged to protect health and environment
Dr. Yogesh Shah argues for a national policy to reach at least 50 percent clean energy by 2030, linking air and water quality to cognitive health and disease prevention. He highlights Iowa’s wind and solar growth, noting wind supports thousands of jobs and significant electricity share, and urges candidates to adopt plans for a healthier, cleaner future.
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Iowa
Terry Branstad
U.S
Obama
Congress
PTC
End Wind Production Tax Credit Now in Congress
Guest column by Thomas J. Pyle argues for letting the wind production tax credit expire. He says the PTC costs taxpayers billions, raises bills for Iowans, and props up wind firms. He links renewal to Obama climate rules and urges lawmakers to oppose PTC.
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Trowa
U.S
Congress
Iowa
The
Institute For Energy Research
PTC
Barack Obama
Environmental Protection Agency
Beaux Arts Ball at Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Letters praise the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art second Beaux Arts Ball held November 7 with a themed Sci Fi exhibit. Attendees enjoyed food, an open bar, music, and gallery access, calling it a fundraiser and a pleasant social option despite low attendance.
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Cedar Rapids
Riders thank RAGBRAI and MEI for monarch support
The MEI group and Mount Vernon volunteers thank RAGBRAI riders for distributing two thousand milkweed seed balls and inviting riders to become guerrilla gardeners for monarchs. The effort highlights monarch habitat loss from glyphosate and aims to expand seed ball distribution in RAGBRAI 2016 with a larger riding team and outreach through news and Facebook stories.
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Ragbrai
Facebook
Mount Vernon
Monarchs
Iowa
MEI
Milkweedmatters
Gmail. Com
Cedar Rapids to name new park after Dave Kramer
Cedar Rapids plans a southwest side park in five to seven years and may honor former park commissioner Dave Kramer. He led the parks and mowing areas with careful grooming and maintenance, though current observations suggest lighter effort now.
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Cedar Rapids
Dave Kramer
Kramer
Douglas McArthur
Fairfax
Refugee fears echo 1942 internment warning
Mary Sanchez argues against repeating the 1942 Japanese American internment pattern as U S policy debates Syrian refugees. The column cites Mi no ru Yasui, his posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, Peggy Nagae, and Chani Hawkins, urging leadership free of race prejudice and war hysteria.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
America
David Bowers
Roanoke
U.S
Bowers
Japan
Minoru Yasui
Yasui
Oregon
Peggy Nagae
Portland
Commission
Chani Hawkins
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