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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 2009
Page
3
President Alan Walker says Upper Iowa University remains in the best financial shape it has ever been due to a diversified revenue mix from 20 satellite centers and online growth. Fayette campus enrolls 900 of 6,600 total, while grants spur Fayette business expansion.
Postville faces downtown destruction with 19 residents displaced and neighboring businesses damaged after a blaze on October 17. The incident follows ongoing recovery from the 2008 federal immigration raid fallout and echoes broader regional concerns about public safety and economic strain.
Readers weigh health care reform and autism advocacy in letters. A nine year old Cedar Rapids writer argues for bipartisanship and a grandparent run for president highlighting autism. Marion and Monticello readers critique traffic cameras and federal spending. Michael Shea calls for reforms and recalls of elected officials while questioning Nobel Peace Prize honoring Barack Obama.
A provocative column argues civility in American discourse has long fluctuated, spanning eras from the 1930s to the present. It contends incivility often reflects power dynamics and partisan critique, urging robust dissent as essential to democracy while condemning racialized abuse.
Alison Oliver argues that Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize victory arose from hope as a transformative force in global peace efforts. She asserts hope guides collective action, ethics, and collaboration, contrasting it with cynicism and fear while crediting Obama’s advocacy and inclusive responsibility to mobilize people.
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