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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 2000
Page
1
The U S women overcome a three game drought by defeating Japan 2 1 to win the Olympic gold in Sydney. Postcard coverage from the games highlights the dramatic comeback and final score.
The article notes coach Steve Alford aiming to lead the team to a Big Ten championship as a path to raise his earnings, highlighting the link between success and pay in college basketball.
Lawmakers hear how teachers salaries compare to neighboring states. Details cite McLeodUSA and Kirkwood Community College partnering to train students in a new telecommunication technology lab program. Money section 7B mentions details.
Tim Shew, a Kennedy graduate with Broadway experience, will perform at Coe College this weekend as part of the sesquicentennial celebration. An interview appears in Accent in Thursday's Gazette.
A faded newspaper page segment lists sections such as Classifieds Comics Crisscross Crossword and Legals. It mentions various features including Deaths Editorial Farm Horoscor Jumble and Lottery Money Movies and the Bridge and Crossword games.
Coralville considers placing the $280 million five acre indoor rain forest complex Iowa Child in land east of I 380 and I 80, shifting from Cedar Rapids where city officials already invested. Des Moines backed the project. a Cedar Rapids feasibility grant drew scrutiny while a state task force favored Cedar Rapids. Ted Townsend expects a decision in two to three months.
In Cedar Rapids Mercy Medical Center reports nine births on Sept 18 and 35 that week with several parents citing New Year’s Eve conceptions, while St. Luke’s sees no clear trend with 156 births in September after 221 in August and 163 in July. The trend remains uncertain and hard to prove.
Marion police charge 53 year old JoAnn Baker with running about 17 000 in charges on cards opened under the name Joyce Baker. Detectives say she used a similar name and a Social Security number to obtain 10 accounts. Purchases ran from last November to April when a card issuer flagged a change of address and she was nabbed at a Betendorf casino.
Fourteen Iowa newspapers coordinated a statewide investigation into local government compliance with public records law. Reporters visited every courthouse and county seat, and sent requests to all 374 public school districts. The effort was organized by editors from The Cedar Rapids Gazette The Iowa City Gazette and the Des Moines Register.
Johnson argues open records and open meetings remain strong only if legislators resist curbing public access and state officials enforce laws when local authorities fail. He proposes the attorney general step in if county attorneys are unwilling or uneducated on public-access issues, noting Indiana's 1998 shift to state government for similar oversight.
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