Walkable Streets Boost Health and Local Growth
Guest column urges embracing walkable communities to cut health risks and boost local economies. Cites Complete Streets plans in Czech Village New Bohemia Cedar Rapids Mount Vernon and Marion with Walk Score ratings 65 75 and 82. Rachel Schramm Linn County Public Health urges policy and advocacy for safer pedestrian networks.
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Rachel Schramm
Linn County Public Health
Iowa Walking College
Iowa ends 20 year IOWATER volunteer water monitoring program
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has ended the 20 year IOWATER volunteer monitoring program amid repeated funding cuts. The move shifts responsibility to local governments and risks unused volunteer data in setting river and stream impairment designations and swimmable fishable use protections. The article also notes relaxed state water quality rules labeled as regulatory relief.
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Iowa Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Clarifying views on memorials and national values
A reader from Springville rejects partisan support for the president and calls for unity with the American people. She criticizes environmental, educational, healthcare and security policies and contrasts memorials honoring victims with those honoring perceived aggressors. Carolyn L. Stucker.
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America
Trump
United States
Carolyn L. Stucker
Springville
Behind the opioid epidemic a system of heedlessness
Mary Sanchez analyzes a congressional McCaskill report into Insys Therapeutics and the Subsys scheme that led to Sarah Fuller’s death. The piece links doctor and insurer dynamics, taped sales pressure, and a profits driven culture fueling addiction and prescribing abuses.
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Sarah Fuller
Fuller
Claire McCaskill
D-Mo
McCaskill
Insys
Insys Therapeutics
FDA
Sarah
Lessons in empathy from a dinner line encounter
A diner observes a man in an automated wheelchair explaining his urine bag to a curious child. The moment defuses questions and prompts broader reflections on grief, communication, and bridging partisan divides through seeing people as multifaceted humans.
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