Four Soldiers Remembered After Niger Ambush
A Washington Post guest editorial honors four American soldiers Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright Sgt. La David Johnson and Sgt. Bryan Black who were killed October 4 in West Africa. The piece condemns President Trump for politicizing their deaths and praises Gold Star families for their grace and dignity.
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Army
Niger
Jeremiah “J.W.” Wayne Johnson
Dustin M. Wright
la David T. Johnson
Bryan C. Black
Wal- Mart
West Africa
Donald Trump
Trump
John Kelly
Barack Obama
Kelly
Afghanistan
Greg Jaffe
Wright
Community letters urge action to calm downtown traffic
Readers attack unsafe downtown driving patterns and demand reinstituting four way stoplights to protect pedestrians. Meghann Foster is praised for community leadership and activism while Mazahir Salih receives support for Iowa City Council, with election day set for November 7.
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Cedar Rapids
Coralville
Mazahir Salih
Iowa City
Halloween fears fade into modern child safety trend
Lenore Skenazy argues the Halloween candy scare is overstated. Studies show Halloween is unusually safe, yet adults overprotect with trunk or treat events and public registries. Personal independence in childhood is being traded for supervised celebrations.
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American Academy of Pediatrics
Joel Best
University of Delaware
Bush and Obama Urge Civic Renewal Amid Political Strife
Lyndalown notes Bush at the Bush Institute argues for living up to civic values and condemns casual cruelty while Obama denounces policies we thought settled. The piece cites a Wehner Melia paper outlining a plan to restart the freedom agenda and critiques past policies affecting the middle class.
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Bush
George W. Bush
New York City
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
Obama
Bush Institute
Peter Wehner
Thomas Melia
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