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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1998
Page
11
Democratic candidate Tom Vilsack blames Republicans for slow action on meth in Iowa and proposes strict penalties for traffickers. He favors National Guard surveillance and civil forfeiture tactics, aiming to curb interstate meth shipments from Mexico and protect children.
About 300 professionals attended a National Institute on Drug Abuse town meeting in Des Moines to discuss methamphetamine, its health and environmental dangers, and the lack of a proven treatment or overdose antidote. Iowa reports 192 labs found this year, with Polk County topping the state busts and rural southern counties bearing many seizures.
An Iowa narcotics official says more than 15 meth production or dump sites have been found within a mile of the Statehouse this year. Wooded Des Moines river areas have served as meth labs. Three busts occurred near McKinley Elementary School, about a mile south.
The State Board of Regents will likely approve a 5.2 percent tuition rise for most Iowa undergraduates to fund targeted improvements in education at the University of Iowa Iowa State University and University of Northern Iowa. Undergraduate costs would reach about 3018 at Iowa and 3008 at UNI with added mandatory fees. Enrollments for fall total 67 619 the highest on record surpassing 66 607 in 1992. A new University Services Building design worth 7.95 million is also up for regents approval to house human resources facilities planning and IT services.
Iowa's three state universities Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa aim to broaden off campus courses via the Iowa Communications Network fiber links. Programs include an executive MBA nursing degrees and public health social work and pharmacy offerings. Regents will review plans in Cedar Falls and may form a committee to study a virtual university with a May report.
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