School troubles start outside the schools
Cedar Rapids editor notes two isolated 1990s incidents near Taft Alternative School and Erskine Elementary show drug sale attempts and a BB gun at school. The piece argues such issues occur beyond certain neighborhoods, stressing schools face problems not of their making and require parental and community efforts to keep incidents rare.
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Taft Alternative School
Erskine Elementary
Cedar Rapids
Erskine
Laurinda Fitzgerald
Tsongas Rudman push for fiscal restraint with Concord Coalition
Senator Tsongas and former Senator Rudman lead the Concord Coalition to curb federal deficits. They argue solutions to overspending matter more than political labels and warn that Clinton risks political consequences if deficits persist. They seek a centrist, fiscally conservative Democratic candidate to unite an army of supporters.
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Bill Clinton
Tsongas
Washington
New Hampshire
Warren Rudman
Concord Coalition
Iowa
Rudman
Fees
Paul Tsongas
Massachusetts
Congress’s Fight Over Malpractice Reform Dead on Arrival
The piece argues that Congress will not pass meaningful health care reform without malpractice reform. It cites Harvard data on malpractice costs, notes the political power of trial lawyers, and outlines four reform steps: cap non economic damages, limit contingency fees, disclose other payments, and spread payments to preserve care.
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Congress
Washington
Harvard University
Florida
Harvard
Health, Education and Welfare
Joseph Califano
Washington Post
American Trial Lawyers Association
Senate
Bob Dole
George McGovern
Wall Street Journal
House Judiciary Committee
Panama invasion critique challenges U S built regimes stance
Richard Reeves argues in July that much anti U S rhetoric in Latin America misreads history. He cites Batista Somoza Trujillo as not installed by Washington and notes Panama’s post invasion path toward democracy amid corruption and regional tensions.
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Richard Reeves
Panama
Reeves
Latin America
Rafael Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Fulgencio Batista
Cuba
Papa Doc Duvalier
Haiti
United States
Americas
Batista
Somoza
Trujillo
Franklin Roosevelt
U.S
Ramon Grau
New York Times
J.D. Phillips
Nicaragua
Central America
Clinton
Endora
Noriega
Endaras
Peru
Brazil
Venezuela
In the Neighborhood: Gazette's Community Summer Project
Gazette reporters spent 11 weeks visiting neighborhoods across the Cedar Rapids metro area to explore a sense of community. The series highlighted Czech Village, Wellington Heights, Bowman Woods, Cedar Hills, Mound View, Oak Hill, Time Check, Vernon Village, Lincolnway Village and Hiawatha, with celebrations, photos, and Q A sessions.
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Gazette
Elizabeth Rutter
Dave Morris
Czech Village
Wellington Heights
Bowman Woods
Cedar Hills
Mound View
Oak Hill
Vernon Village
Lincolnway
Hiawatha
Cedar Rapids
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