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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1985
Page
6
Art Heusinkveld serves as editor of editorial pages and chairs the Editorial Board, guiding opinion content and board governance for the publication.
Secretary Weinberger canceled the Divad project after seven years and nearly 2 billion dollars. The Sgt. York's failure to perform adequately ended production with 65 of 618 units delivered. The move saves money and signals tough contractor oversight, while urging a safer alternative to counter Soviet helicopter gunships.
The piece cautions drivers, pedestrians, and bikers as students return to classes. It notes 28 percent rise in traffic deaths, with 42 stop sign violations and 59 speeding fatalities this year. It urges individual caution and shared responsibility from families, schools, police, and groups like AAA.
NOAA reports GOES-6 main weather satellite malfunction on August 25 as a camera pointed into space. Affected hours totaled about 44 percent of the day due to a fault blamed on static electricity or cosmic radiation.
A Cedar Rapids reader defends Mothers Against Drunk Driving and calls for tougher penalties for drunken drivers. Letters urge voting for Susan McDermott to the Cedar Rapids Community School Board and support Darrell McReynolds as a school candidate. A user argues against a 40 cent per thousand school levy in Independence and stresses prudent government spending and weatherization benefits.
In 1987 Cedar Rapids plans move ninth graders to high schools and create middle schools in junior high buildings under a revised plan first approved in 1981. Mary Ann Kucera advocates the reform, emphasizing continuity and public input. vote for her September 10.
A reader argues feminists are a distinct breed from fair minded women and claims feminists seek government action to subjugate men. The piece then defines tax loopholes as legal exemptions and attacks the notion that closing them deprives the government, insisting all income is taxed unless exempt.
Outlooks column collects views arguing that tax loopholes allow private citizens to keep wealth while government deficits rise. It critical of feminists and tax-closers, claims they push for expanded government and policing, ending with the notion they will end up back in the streets.
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