ISA Extension referendum urged for five Iowa counties
Editorial urges yes on Nov vote for ISU Extension funding in Linn Benton Buchanan Washington Muscatine counties. Explains Extension's mission to provide practical knowledge from land grant roots and support for family finance, drug abuse prevention, youth programs like 4 H, and even domestic pet care. Details proposed funding increases, modest tax impacts, and notes a simple majority needed for passage.
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Iowa State University Extension Service
ISU Extension
Iowa State
Iowa
Linn
Benton
Buchanan
Washington
Muscatine
Linn County
Study Vote Guide Prompts Questions on Iowa Issues
The Gazette presents Your Vote '96 with equal space for Iowa Legislature candidates. Topics include livestock containment, tax relief, gambling, term limits, school bond thresholds, and capital punishment. Some candidates offered brief or no detail. readers are urged to contact those who wrote more to learn their positions.
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Gazette
Iowa
Muscatine
Senate
Cedar
Clinton
Jones
Scott
Students' streetcar mischief prompts safety questions
A diesel streetcar on First Avenue East carried a group of youths riding on the rear platform. A banner reading Honk is your horny prompted concern over public safety and decorum, with questions about the need for courses in safety, manners, and spelling. The incident followed prior week’s horseplay observed by motorists.
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City
First Avenue East
Letters to the Gazettes on Clinton liberalism and media bias
A reader letters page blasts Times Mirror journalists as liberal. It accuses the press of censorship and misquoting leaders, cites Clinton executive decrees and UN power, mocks a Gazette cartoon, and urges voting against the Democrat administration while praising conservatism and religious faith.
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Times Mirror
Bill Clinton
Bob Dole
Clinton
Justice Department
Jorge Carrera
Congress
P.D
Gazette
Protests at Lightfoot rally draw mixed reactions
A reader defends the Lightfoot rally, contending protesters infringed on speakers rights and disrupted the event. The letter praises the candidate's presentation and questions adults guiding students, urging school officials to redefine goals and organizers to apologize.
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Jim Ross Lightfoot
U.S. Senate
Lightfoot
Rep. Lightfoot
Ment
Grandfolks seek accountability in public schools movement
Rosanne Freeburg urges a new citizen group to audit district spending and school tech. She criticizes a 25 million tax win and administration costs, calling for enrollment data, device counts, home computer access, and staff technology roles to reveal the true priorities and push for answers from schools and City Council.
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Rosanne Freeburg
Cedar Rapids
Not Quite Heteronyms and a D in German
A reader muses on heteronyms and their quirks as Harold Miller and Bill Bryson are cited. Iowa City’s Jim McNeish notes word pair reversibility in German forms, while the narrator admits a German grade of D and reflects on language quirks and word play.
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White House
ABC News
Washington
New York City
Christ
Slick Willie
Iowa
Harold Miller
Sully
Joe
Ivan
Bill Bryson
Jim McNeish
Iowa City
Jim
Bryson
Deadline today for letters on the November election
The Cedar Rapids Gazette awaits opinion letters on the November 5 election. Submissions must be signed and under 300 words. Include daytime phone and street address. contact options listed are for intake only. Mail to Cedar Rapids Gazette Box 511 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406 FAX 3985846 or email gazette fylowa infi.net.
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Cedar Rapids
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