Fighting heroin deaths underscores ongoing public health battle
The Gazette urges ongoing vigilance as eastern Iowa faces rising heroin deaths in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. Officials note 22 overdoses in Cedar Rapids over 22 months and three in Iowa City in 12 months, adding heroin's cheap supply and availability drive consumption among young adults.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Iowa
Mexico
Chicago
Dale Woolery
Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy
Woolery
Those in Power Must Be Held Accountable
David Hogan from Cedar Rapids argues that the failure of the super committee and congressional insider trading disclosures show those in power are not accountable. He says the public must demand accountability or society fails.
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Super Committee
Congressional
David Hogan
Cedar Rapids
Romney Campaign Draws Fire Over Planned Parenthood Claim
At a Dubuque stop Mitt Romney claimed he would cut funding for Planned Parenthood while previously as governor he pledged to protect a woman's right to choose. The discrepancy highlights shifting positions in his campaign.
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Mitt Romney
Dubuque
Romney
Tax extension for flood protection plan questioned
Citizen raises concern about petition seeking a March election to extend local option sales tax for ten years to fund flood protection. Supporter argues for a comprehensive plan and deems sales tax a reasonable funding method.
Opinion Letter on Flood Funding and Gas Tax
James G. Flanigan argues for ballot language linking an option sales tax to complete flood protection funding, cites FEMA and Army Corps delays, and discusses state and federal gas tax levels, vehicle fuel efficiency, and future taxation with electric cars. He supports higher road funding if needed and questions tax sources for electrics.
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Ron Corbett
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Sinclair
Army Corps of Engineering
State House
James G. Flanigan
Cedar Rapids
GOP 2012 hopefuls fade into television fantasy
The column mocks 2012 Republican contenders as entertainment figures. Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Mitt Romney are sketched in a satirical future where they pursue TV roles and political afterlives rather to win the White House.
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Herman Cain
Ka-ching
China
Newt Gingrich
Uni
Gingrich
Wall Street
Oval Office
Office of Ideas
Cain
Fox
Rick Perry
Texas
Jon Huntsman
Huntsman
Ron Paul
Paul
Congressional Office of Reality
Occupy Cedar Rapids faces First Amendment clash at city lot
The Occupy Cedar Rapids camp on a FEMA owned city lot on First Street and M Avenue NW moves toward federal court after the city served notice the site violates a city ordinance against storing personal property on public land. The protest highlights tension between free speech and municipal code enforcement in flood rebuilt Cedar Rapids.
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First Street
M Avenue NW
Occupy
Cedar Rapids
Wall Street
FEMA
Voltaire
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