Disabled activist spurs pool access and city upgrades
Phil Parks led handicapped residents to challenge a municipal pool opening over accessibility gaps. After state inspectors intervened, the pool opened with ramps, curb cuts, wide doors, and adapted facilities. Parks pushed for broader civic inclusion and affordable mobility across Decorah and nearby towns.
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Parks
State Health Department
State Building
Phil
Decorah
Calmar
Fort Atkinson
Johnsons private funds and Oval Office phones spark controversy
The piece alleges Lyndon Johnson kept private phone lines in the Oval Office to talk with Texas lawyers managing his blind trust and that he directed his business affairs during the presidency with ruthless use of power. It cites critics including Caro and statements from aides like Harry McPherson and Bill Moyers, while noting his wealth and past oil interests.
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Caro
Oval Office
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
Harry McPherson
Washington
White House
McPherson
Bill Moyers
Moyers
George Brown
Brown
Brown & Root Inc
Franklin Roosevelt
Internal Revenue Service
Brown & Root
Women bear most poverty burden in society report
The article notes two of three poor adults are women and cites divorce as a key factor forcing mothers to juggle economic and emotional child care duties. It argues for welfare reform toward services like quality day care to help employed mothers and calls for policy changes to reduce barriers to women in the labor market.
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Reagan
Federal programs help millions leave poverty, panel says
Nearly 11 million Americans have left poverty in a decade due to federal programs. The council finds benefits outweigh costs and that delivery systems provide essential human and social services. They urge maintaining social and moral commitments despite economic hardship.
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Council
IRA inmate joins fast for political status in Belfast
Jim Devine, 24, a prisoner serving 10 years for bomb making, begins a hunger strike joining seven other nationalist inmates. The move comes as 10 nationalist convicts have died since March 1 amid the protest, with five breaking fasts recently.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Irish Republican Army
Ulster Freedom Fighters
Eugene Mulholland
UFF
Ulster Defense Association
Mulholland
IRA
Jim Devine
Belfast Republican Press Center
Independence City Reclaims Land Misunderstanding
The city of Independence has bought six acres it already owned and seeks to recover a $1,000 partial payment. Officials believed the land was Rock Island Railroad property and paid $900 per acre totaling $5,454, but former County Assessor Dayton Winters informed the mayor the city already held an easement granted in 1872 to a railroad later known as the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Minnesota.
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Independence
Rock Island Railroad
Dayton Winters
Frank Brimmer
The
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railroad Company
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