Ballot Question on Linn County Office Space Sparks Debate
Linn County supervisors push a November ballot on spending up to 1.1 million to buy or lease admin offices. Two options remain unsettled: remodel the Coliseum or buy Penick and Ford building, with voters facing a mandate rather than permission.
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Linn County Supervisors
Citizens’ Advisory Committee
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Board of Supervisors
Coliseum
Penick
Ford
Linn County
Cedar Rapids Demolitions Target Rat Infested Buildings
Cedar Rapids City Council approves tearing down a rat infested structure in the southwest section. The piece recalls a 1967 House vote against a federal rat control grant and highlights urban cleanup as a key step in reducing rat habitats.
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Specter
Cedar Rapids
U.S. House of Representatives
Newark
N.J
Letters on professionalism and Bever Park Zoo concerns
A reader questions modern professionalism and integrity in workplaces. The letter warns against overbreeding at Bever Park Zoo noting lions and big cats in overcrowded American zoos and urges the Cedar Rapids citizens committee to address the zoo's breeding practices and future prospects.
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Cedar Rapids
Bever Park Zoo
Louise
Bever Park
Brookfield
Milwaukee
San Diego
George Rabb
Brookfield Zoo
Wildlife Park
New York Times
Dr. Rabb
Labor's woes stem from unions' own public relations failings
Washington Star Syndicate argues that U S labor unions face political defeats and declining public esteem due to corruption, coercion, and poor image. It cites low unionization, decertification losses, and clashes with business lobbying as factors in a broader decline.
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Nation
A.H. Raskin
Congress
Capitol Hill
Washington
NLRB
Memphis
New Orleans
Energy saving in traffic control eyed as big oil saver
Cedar Rapids traffic engineer Me B Meyer notes energy conservation in transportation can cut fuel use. He highlights signals timing one way streets bus stop optimizations and speed limits like 55 mph and 30 35 mph flow as cents per mile gains potentially saving millions of gallons nationwide.
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Carter
U.S
Me B. Meyer
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Traffic Control Safety Association
Missouri Valley Institute of Transportation Engineers
International Institute of Traffic Engineers
Word Origins and Phrases From a Language Column
Theodore M. Bernstein discusses how meanings of words evolve and why phrases like heads up stay meaningful. He notes truculent shifted from savage to defiant and examines look out and watch it as slang origins. He also cites Iowa name origins from Ayuba meaning sleepy ones.
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Iowa
Isn’t it the truth by Carl Ribiet Jr
A satirical column laments greed ignorance and arrogance amid rising weaponry and warns of looming crises from Mars invasions or congressional salary hikes as observed by interOcean Press Syndicate.
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Carl Ribiet Jr
Jack
Mars
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