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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 2003
Page
1
The Gazette reports recommendations urge Iowa to provide safety permanence well being and academic development for troubled children while rehabilitating offenders and ensuring community safety. It notes lawmakers ordered the Department of Human Services to reform but raises open questions about approval and implementation.
The draft DHS plan proposed by Public Strategies Group seeks pay-for-results, reduced paperwork, and family-centered casework. It would restructure funding while the department’s budget faces a $10 million cut, with public feedback due after a monthlong comment period.
Maharishi University of Management scientists at the Laboratory for Health and Aging Studies await a $2 million NIH grant. The award would raise total federal funding to $20.3 million since 1989 to study Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi Vedic Medicine in preventing and treating heart disease and other chronic illnesses.
Paul Hill, a former minister who said he murdered an abortion doctor and his bodyguard to save unborn lives, was executed by injection in Florida. He was the first inmate in the United States executed for anti abortion violence. Hill, 49, was condemned for the July 29, 1994, shootings outside the Ladies Center in Pensacola that killed Dr John Bayard Britton and Lt. Col. James Barrett and wounded Barretts wife. He urged foes to use any means to oppose abortion.
A suspicious fire destroyed the Delta covered bridge in Keokuk County last night. Sheriff Ron George said the blaze started in the middle of the 1867 structure on a dead end road near North Skunk River and noted meth activity nearby. A state fire marshal will investigate. the bridge sits on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974 and is pedestrian only.
Iowa City UI students contest the Princeton Review ranking that labeled the university as worst for scarce professors. The guide drew on 106000 surveys, with UI contributing 306 undergraduate responses about access and graduate teaching assistants.
University of Iowa students voiced opinions on the claim that instructors are available outside class for help. They highlighted accessibility, office hours, and responsiveness as key factors shaping their learning experiences and overall satisfaction.
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