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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 2003
Page
6
Project planners seek a more accurate cost estimate after the low bid and engineering estimate proved too low. Upgrades include biosafety level enhancements, greenhouse access, utility bids, telecom, and stain glass work to complete the full scope.
Regents flag rising costs as Iowa State University UNI and Iowa officials cite private funding to redo aging facilities. Beardshear Hall renovations rise to 8.5 million with donor support, including Warren Madden. Lawmakers note regents seek value but question overall cost consciousness amid tight budgets.
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City report most municipal building projects come in under budget for the past two fiscal years. Cedar Rapids notes 112 of 131 projects under budget in 2008 and $2.9 million under budget last year, while Iowa City also spent less than expected. Lessons include solid cost estimates and fixed permit prices.
Robert Greenstein of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities blames higher poverty on rising unemployment and weak child tax credits for low income families. Experts note 2002 poverty shifts align with recession, while the American Community Survey tests a yearly alternative to the long form.
Pentagon data show 55 Americans wounded last week and 574 wounded since May 1, with casualties rising faster than peak fighting. From March 19 to April 30, 550 U.S. troops were wounded. more than 6,000 have been flown home, including 1,124 wounded in action and 301 non hostile injuries.
John Hinckley Jr. 48, confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital since his insanity acquittal for the Reagan assassination plot, will ask a federal judge to allow unsupervised visits with his parents with hearings set for November.
British astronomers report a two thirds of a mile wide asteroid named 2003 QQ47 has been spotted and will be studied over the next two months to assess its future trajectory. There is only about a one in a million chance it could reach Earth and uncertainty remains about its path, said Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen’s University Belfast.
Iraq war veteran Jessica Lynch agrees to a memoir with Alfred A. Knopf and Rick Bragg. The book titled I Am a Soldier Too will recount her capture and rescue, with a mid November release and a first printing around 500,000 copies. Lynch and Bragg reportedly receive a $1 million advance, royalties to Lynch.
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