Group homes debated as Cedar Rapids weighs zoning tweaks
Cedar Rapids residents along 17th Street and Grand Avenue SE clash over Villa Avery and nearby group homes. City considers revising zoning rules to allow up to eight residents in all residential districts for youth with emotional or mental handicaps while defining group home versus halfway house and setting density guidelines.
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Villa Avery
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Theatre Gift Boosts Community Playhouse
The Cedar Rapids Community Theatre opens in the former Iowa Theatre with Auntie Mame marking the debut. The venue seats about 550, funded by a Hall Foundation $300,000 gift and numerous donations pushing the project near $1 million.
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Cedar Rapidians
David Linge
Hall Foundation
Familiar old issue awaits return of Supreme Court
The Supreme Court opens its new term with Lynch vs Donnelly awaiting oral argument. Pawtucket Rhode Island faces a city display including a creche and secular concerns under the First Amendment. The three part test on Establishment Clause is questioned by observers as tradition and recent rulings loom over the case.
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Minnesota
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United States
Medicare DRG pricing sparks protest over hospital payments
A reader lambastes the new DRG system as absurd prospective pricing that ties hospital reimbursement to coded diagnoses. The piece argues rising costs, computerized selection, and calls for hospitals and patients to resist the program to prevent its implementation.
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Thoughtful Eastern Iowans share invited periodical views
Periodic observations from Eastern Iowans invited to express themselves here. The topics are unlimited. The views are theirs. Bob Jaggard has practiced medicine in Oelwein since 1951.
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Bob Jaggard
Oelwein
Cedar Rapids School Board Director Thanks Voters
The winner thanks Cedar Rapids voters for entrusting him with the school board seat. He pledges to take the position seriously and to stay open to ideas from the entire community, thanking active supporters from all walks of life.
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Cedar Rapids
Lisbon cheer squad adviser responds to Gazette caption
Sue McDermott, Lisbon cheerleading adviser, defends the squad after The Gazette captioned them as finishing near last at the Westdale Mall event. She notes divisions and nonparticipants affected coverage and urges constructive feedback and praise for all squads.
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Lisbon
Westdale
Sue McDermott
Cedar Rapids
Deficient Ambulance Service Sparks Family Frustration
An irate caller complains after two female attendants failed to lift a very large patient, prompting a Fire Department call. At St Luke’s the family helped lift the mother from the ambulance and waited three hours to be checked in with one doctor on duty in emergency.
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Fire Department
St. Luke’s
Gazette Letters Policy Guidelines Summary
The Gazette invites readers to send letters up to 400 words summarizing issues and events rather than personalities. Include writer name street address and signature, and a non published telephone number for authentication. Anonymous letters are not published. One letter per writer every 30 days.
Poppy Day Thanks From Cedar Rapids Veterans Group
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 788 and Ladies Auxiliary thank Cedar Rapids residents for supporting this year’s Buddy Poppy Day. Special thanks go to volunteers media the city businesses and the public for their contributions. Proceeds aid disabled and needy veterans and widows and orphans of deceased veterans. The group aims to honor the dead by helping the living.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 788
Cedar Rapids
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