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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 2003
Page
4
The Gazette urges keeping train horns as safety priority over neighborhood quiet zones. It cites 90 minute nationwide accidents and 400 deaths yearly, noting the Swift Rail Development Act of 1994, pending federal rules, and costs of upgrades. Automated horns at about 30000 dollars offer a cheaper compromise, but funding and safety remain central.
A letter outlines how 3 percent raises over five years create widening gaps between rich and poor in Iowa with $125,000 versus $20,000 salaries growing far apart. The writer argues for fixed dollar raises or lower percentages for high earners, plus a one percent annual raise for low-wage workers, and critiques tax cuts for the rich while noting tax burdens.
The Gazette notes the University of Iowa’s decision to end the 14 year Galileo spacecraft program. It highlights pioneers Louis Frank Donald Garnett and James Van Allen who built a world class space physics legacy. It questions funding shifts to NIH and calls for sustaining space research alongside health initiatives. Tom Walsh reports.
PBS documentary panel discusses how whiteness shapes belonging and how various groups in the United States view race. Lakota, Jewish, Chinese, Black, Irish, German and other identities meet in the dialogue, with Siler City, North Carolina cited as a case study of shifting California.
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