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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1990
Page
5
Editorial notes a 2-1 defeat of the College Community School Districts income tax surtax and urges better public information and accountability for funding. It argues taxpayers balk at repeated funding measures amid strained finances and imperfect legislation shifting costs to locals.
Landowner Jack Graham plowed up the Elkins Prairie, once the region’s largest northeast Kansas remnant, despite Nature Conservancy offers at 3500 dollars per acre. Graham cited production gains while others mourn the loss of the historic landscape. Kansas artist Stan Herd laments the disappearance of a shared heritage and educational landscape.
A Washington opinion piece frames Edwin Gray, former FHLB chairman, as exacting revenge on senators who pressured him in 1987 over Charles Keating and the Keating Five. It contrasts bureaucratic suffering with congressional hearings and likens the scene to a modern coliseum.
In a Kilpatrick column, Jesse Helms is praised as representing white male gut concerns. The piece questions affirmative action,job losses for minorities, and calls out apparent contradictions about crime and pornography versus unequal opportunities. The writers warn that such views favor white men in Congress.
The annual Thanksgiving Day Dinner for seniors drew over 1,000 attendees as hundreds of volunteers shared their holiday. Appreciation goes to Aegon USA Life Investors for cafeteria use and LI employees for their work, with special kudos to Marilin McDevitt for seven years of turkey and trimmings. City of Cedar Rapids buses aided participation, and Ron Johnson provided accordion music.
Mark J. Denniston, Jones County deputy sheriff, argues that patrol planes and helicopters assist rural departments, comparing aircraft support to tractors for farmers. He notes the difference between fleeing and stopping when confronted by police and thanks agencies that maintain aviation units.
Local residents led by the Wellington Heights Association argue for preserved affordable housing and against a second office project by two doctors. They note housing at or below 24000 dollars yearly serves most Cedar Rapids residents and warn the community must balance development with preservation.
Readers question four examples of wording in an item about a home purchase a health care worker and language usage. The column notes debates over phrases like non needle stick up to and aspirin thinning versus anti coagulant effects.
Dorothy K. Fisher shares how Hospice of Mercy provides nursing home health aid social work spiritual and volunteer services to keep terminal patients at home with family. The program accepts any terminal illness patient regardless of age race or ability to pay, with contact at Mercy Medical Center 398-6496.
The Capital Times reports a tug of war between Congress and the National Park Service over a magazine budget cut. A congressional staffer hinted that signals are sent when agencies offend lawmakers, as $75,000 for publishing the in house newsletter was deleted in the Interior appropriations deal.
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