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KCRG : Iowa City West High Students and Parents Rally for Teachers | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sp

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:00:52 +0000

So I guess the teachers are wishing they hadn't ramrodded that salary increase thru now. The money has to come from somewhere. You can have all the feel good rallies you want. In the end it comes down to money.

KCRG : AARP Says Ad Opposing Nuclear Plan Is Accurate | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Wea

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:34:22 +0000

Plants of today? The USA has not built a nuclear reactor in 30 years. And it is true the reactors they are designing to be hopefully built have a lot more safety designs for the reactor, they still have no safety designed around the spent fuel pools.

KCRG : AARP Says Ad Opposing Nuclear Plan Is Accurate | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Wea

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:31:08 +0000

You could fly a 747 into the REACTOR, which has a steel and concrete containment. The spent fuel pool sitting on top of the reactor has no such safeguards and has probably 5 reactors worth of uranium sitting in a pool of water protected by a standard sheet metal building. Fly a 747 into that, or even just turn the power off for 2 days and the entire state of Iowa would be uninhabitable, just like the spent fuel pools in Japan (General electric Mark 1 Boiling water reactor, same design and both built around 1974 as Duane Arnold in Palo)

KCRG : AARP Says Ad Opposing Nuclear Plan Is Accurate | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Wea

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:00:35 +0000

I believe more nuclear power is the key to our future. However, the current designs for spent nuclear fuel is lacking any kind of safety, as is evidence the Japanese debacle. Please vote down any new nuclear facilities until such time as they design the spent fuel rod pools with redundancy, concrete and steel containment vessels, and a pla non what to do if things go wrong.

KCRG : Cedar Rapids Holds First Public Meeting on LOST Extension | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Spor

Sat, 2 Apr 2011 03:40:08 +0000

A ten year extension would pay for the flood wall. Extending it for twenty years is not about the flood wall. Vote No on 2034

KCRG : Wall-length Mural Uncovered at the Cedar Rapids’ New Council Chambers | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapid

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:51:11 +0000

They stri..pp.ed the roads m.oney out of hte budg.et and said if you want ro.ads, vote for the new tax. Then they will use the m.oney they WOU.LD ha.ve spe.nt on ro.ads and sp.end it on bl.ank like this. Then use the n.ew ta.x to pay for the ro.ads. Do you see the sh.ell g.ame?

KCRG : Wall-length Mural Uncovered at the Cedar Rapids’ New Council Chambers | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapid

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:42:01 +0000

of course. They stri..pp.ed the roads m.oney out of hte budg.et and said if you want ro.ads, vote for the new tax. Then they will use the m.oney they WOU.LD ha.ve spe.nt on ro.ads and sp.end it on bl.ank like this. Then use the n.ew ta.x to pay for the ro.ads. Do you see the sh.ell g.ame?

KCRG : Calls For Potassium Iodide Amid Radiation Concerns | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:49:06 +0000

Unfortunately, there is so much misinformation out there I cannot find anything. However, it is a widely known fact that volcano ash circles the globe multiple times when a volcano go off. It stands to reason that an extremely hot radioactive fire could easily do the same. Quote,"By far the more substantive climatic effect from volcanoes results from the production of atmospheric haze. Large eruption columns inject ash particles and sulfur-rich gases into the troposphere and stratosphere and these clouds can circle the globe within weeks of the volcanic activity." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=...

KCRG : Calls For Potassium Iodide Amid Radiation Concerns | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:59:28 +0000

The radiation spike WAS very noticeable. They evacuated all emergency personnel from the facility on Wed for a few hours. They have brought them back on a 50 person rotating basis to keep radiation exposure down. A normal contingent of workers if the plant is operating normally is 400. Does that tell you something? The big problem is not the 6 reactors contained by 2 separate containment systems. The big problem is the 40 years worth of spent fuel rods for those 6 reactors that is sitting next to them. They are supposed to be under water to protect and keep them cool. The water is gone. They are open to the air and catching on fire.

KCRG : Calls For Potassium Iodide Amid Radiation Concerns | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:51:26 +0000

I was not proving your point, I was showing how inaccurate your statements are. Hopefully there won't be much radiation getting to California, and even less getting over the Rockies to get to Iowa. But that could change if the fires restart in the spent fuel rod pools. If that fire restarts and continue for some time the temperature will jump so high and the radiation will jump so high that it could push lots of radioactive particles up above 30k feet into the jet stream, which would have a much better chance at getting to Iowa. Please don't keep spouting off inaccurate information. You are worse then the gazette.

KCRG : Calls For Potassium Iodide Amid Radiation Concerns | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:30:28 +0000

The pills are only effective if taken in the first 12-24 hours of exposure. Its been a week. Also, UPS and fedex have suspended shipments to Japan.

KCRG : Calls For Potassium Iodide Amid Radiation Concerns | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:29:00 +0000

California is 5600 miles from Japan not 2000. Japan is far worse then chernobyl. Chernobyl was 1 reactor. Japan has 6 reactors in trouble and 30 reactors worth of fuel in trouble with no concrete plan on fixing it.

KCRG : Calls For Potassium Iodide Amid Radiation Concerns | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:25:04 +0000

Half life means it loses half of its radiation in that time, not all of its radiation. It would take months to make it harmless. Los angles CA is 5600 miles from fukishima Japan.

KCRG : Calls For Potassium Iodide Amid Radiation Concerns | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:13:18 +0000

Hydrogen explosions throwing lots of radioactive gases like iodine, uranium, and cesium high up into the air. Hydrogen explosions throwing what was left of the water in the spent fuel tanks out of the pool. Hydrogen explosions destroying the concrete in one of the spent fuel tanks making it unlikely to hold water ever again. But yes, the explosion itself did not have a lot of radiation. Just everything around it that was being thrown into the air.

KCRG : Calls For Potassium Iodide Amid Radiation Concerns | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:09:21 +0000

Half of Cedar Rapids does. And I wouldn't be quibbling about the other half should an event occur. Duane Arnold Energy Center, 3277 Daec Rd, Palo, IA 52324-9785

KCRG : Calls For Potassium Iodide Amid Radiation Concerns | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:55:22 +0000

Kcrg keeps deleting my post. The US government did not hand out KI during 3 miles island. The japanese government did not hand out KI pills last week. The russian government did not hand out KI pills during chernobyl. What makes you think the US government would next time?

KCRG : Iowa House Approves Collective Bargaining Changes | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:05:48 +0000

Page 44 of :http://www.cr.k12.ia.us/services/businessServices/BudgetFinance/supportDocs/2011%20Budget%20Book.pdf Page Page 68 of http://www.cr.k12.ia.us/services/businessServices... Page 64 of: http://www.cr.k12.ia.us/services/businessServices... I think that if the general public does not generally get a raise the people that serve them, ie the public employees, should not get a raise. And in general the public has not gotten raises, certainly not 6-10% raises, since the financial crisis started. And the average teacher in Cedar rapids between 1st and 8th grade makes 53k$ a year, not 40k. And the average gym teacher in Cedar Rapids makes 58k$ a year, not 40k$.

KCRG : Iowa House Approves Collective Bargaining Changes | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:05:44 +0000

FYI, there has been a trend of smaller number of students in the Cedar Rapids school district for the past ten years: Sampling: 2010-2011:16,929 2009-2010:17502 2008-2009:17746 2007-2008:17677 2006-2008:17754 2005-2006:17691 2004-2005:17656 2003-2004:17861 2002-2003:17860 2001-2002:18114 http://www.cr.k12.ia.us/services/businessServices...

KCRG : Iowa House Approves Collective Bargaining Changes | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:56:20 +0000

Teachers union salary in Cedar Rapids budget: 2010-2011 estimate: 140,973,230 Percent increase:9.7% 2009-2010 actual: 127,236,316 Percent increase:7.76% 2008-2009 actual:117,357,906 Percent increase:6.28% 2007-2008 actual: 109,987,448 http://www.cr.k12.ia.us/services/businessServices...

KCRG : Calls For Potassium Iodide Amid Radiation Concerns | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:41:10 +0000

The NRC has supplied KI tablets to States requesting it for the population within the 10-mile emergency planning zone (EPZ). If necessary, KI is to be used to supplement evacuation or sheltering in place, not to take the place of these actions.