Editorial notes beer sales at Kinnick and a teacher of the year
The Gazette editorials oppose beer sales at Kinnick Stadium and praise University of Iowa officials for restraint. Cedar Rapids teacher Tania Johnson is named Iowa Teacher of the Year, with 22 years in education. Fred Timko plans West Side redevelopment, including the historic 101 Third Ave SW bank building, post 2008 flood impacts.
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University of Iowa
Kinnick Stadium
University of Minnesota
Kinnick
Tania Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Johnson
West Side
Fred Timko
Cedar River
Bank
Third Ave
Timko
Bottleworks Loft
Iowa City hiring policy flags driving record gaps and cases
City policy bars hiring anyone with four or more violations in three years for driving jobs. Jamar Collins, a city bus driver, faced four violations in the period before his 2004 hire as officials probe a possible hiring discrepancy. Five newly built halfway houses sit empty due to lack of state funding, while prison renovations in Fort Madison and Mitchellville strain budgets.
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Iowa City
Jamar Collins
Davenport
Ames
Sioux City
Ottumwa
Waterloo
Fort Madison
Mitchellville
Islamic Center hosts Afghan dinner with Kathy Kelly remarks
The Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids hosted an Afghan dinner on September 14 featuring peace activist Kathy Kelly who spoke after the meal. The Gazette did not cover the event despite Kelly's global peace work and Afghanistan experience.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Veterans For Peace
Kathy Kelly
Kelly
Afghanistan
Baghdad
Gaza
Israel
Islamic Center
Gazette
United States
Rockwell
Schulte Vows Third Iowa House Term Support
Rep. Renee Schulte announces re election to a third Iowa House term. She credits two years of work improving the business environment by removing barriers to small business, balancing the budget, and delivering a budget surplus. She seeks increased education funding and bipartisan mental health reform with a focus on opportunity for all Iowans. Tom Kincheloe Cedar Rapids.
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Renee Schulte
Iowa House
Iowa
Tom Kincheloe
Cedar Rapids
Letter from Mount Vernon reader on Romney 47 percent remark
Steve Maravetz writes about his late mother-in-law who lived on $7,000 a year and received Medicare hospice care. He argues that reforms could affect Medicaid funding for elderly home care and praises his relative as a stand-up woman who would agree with the remark.
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Medicare
Paul Ryan
Steve Maravetz
Mount Vernon
Free speech and Muslim tolerance clash over anti Islam images
The column argues that free speech is not to blame for Muslim world tensions. It critiques reactions to a controversial image, noting violence and harassment in Muslim-majority regions, asserts Muslims have free will, and faults Arab and Muslim governance rather than the First Amendment.
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Pakistan
Egypt
Palestinian Territories
America
Cairo
U.S
Institutional lessons from Scouting abuse records urge protection of children
A Los Angeles Times review of 1 600 Boy Scouts of America files from 1970 to 1991 shows many cases where officials failed to report abuse or concealed it. Since 2010 the group requires reporting suspicions to police, training for volunteers, and background checks. Chief Scout Executive Wayne Brock presses ongoing vigilance as the core defense.
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Times
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Wayne Brock
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