Room for more Cedar Rapids C R candidates for city council
The Gazette urges more residents to file for Cedar Rapids City Council seats before the Sept 22 deadline. With nine seats under the council manager system, volunteers are urged to collect signatures quickly as many of the 55 initial filings may not become candidates. The piece praises broad participation and diversity.
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Morning after pill debate and hospital ad tactics
Letters discuss emergency contraception accuracy and government limits on access. Authors advocate over the counter availability, cite Planned Parenthood, criticize hospital advertising by St Luke’s, and reference Iraq WMD allegations and Saddam Hussein. The piece includes user names Sasha Burnett and Michael Sanders and mentions Uranium at al Tuwaitha and Sarin.
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Sasha Burnett
Cedar Rapids
Bush missed chance to bolster UN reform at summit
The piece argues the Bush administration failed to back comprehensive United Nations reform. It warns that postponing Security Council changes to appease Congress weakens global institutions amid rising multipolar powers and climate diplomacy shifting to the World Bank.
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St. Luke's Hospital Advertises Against Obstetric Flow
St. Luke's Hospital, labeled a Top 100 Hospital, spends heavily to divert obstetric patients from Mercy Medical Center, the Cedar Rapids area's only other hospital, amid competition and patient flow concerns.
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Weapons claim cites 500 tons yellow cake at Tuwaitha facility
The excerpt asserts 500 tons of yellow cake uranium were stored at Saddam Hussein s al Tuwaitha nuclear facility as evidence of weapons of mass destruction, challenging critics who doubt WMD existence.
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Desire for nukes is incomprehensible
Letter from K M Dutch Thompson Mount Vernon argues against national pursuit of nuclear weapons, urging leaders to consider the devastation seen in Japan and to imagine the weapon delivered anywhere, as a deterrent to arming.
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