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Hill battle for the republican, peters, to win over the more than half Million People in the 24 county district. For an hour, the two sparred over a variety of topics. On obama care, loebsack said the system needed more competition in the market to drive down high premiums. Peters wanted a bigger overhaul, calling for an emphasis on Health Savings accounts and more high deductible plans. Social security, both agreed a raising the tax cap would be helpful. Loebsack hospitals was a bad call. Peter...

For having me. Craig we also have suresh raghavan, a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the university of iowa. Suresh, i thank you so much for being with us today. Suresh a pleasure, craig. Craig thank you. Today people of my generation, i wont include you guys in this, but people of my generation encountered only in science we see regularly today in the news. Artificial intelligence, mechanical organs, bionic limbs, these things happen on a daily basis. They are being improved and becoming...

Hawkeye game or if you happen to be in cedar rapids for the first half of the day, the farmers market. Whatever you have planned the weather is sure to cooperate. Even into the evening hours weve got seemingly perfect weather. Temperatures will drop down into the 50s overnight and skies will begin to clear even more. So sunday is going to be even better. Mostly sunny skies and a high of 79. Today partly sunny. Wind w 515. High 75 alo 75 dbq 75 iow 75 72 to 78 tonight mostly clear. Wind w 510. Lo...

Two Council Members who both say theyve been completely in the dark about it, and are frustrated. Councilmen Steve Schmitt says the mayor never contacted any of the Council Members to let them know what was happening. He says hes troubled by a lack of transparency and communication among city leaders. 23 55 42;20 this is not how this has normally gone, i mean weve had some other Department Heads over the last ten years that have gotten relieved of their duties shall we say and all of those situa...

Philadelphia Police Officers are in the hospital this morning after an overnight shooting. The shootout ended with Police Shooting and killing the suspect in an alley. Police say a suspect walked up to a Police Vehicle and started shooting around 11 30 last night. Shots hit sergeant sylvia young multiple times on her protective vest. The shooter also wounded university of pennsylvania officer ed miller. Both are in say the shooter injured a secuirty guard and a woman in a bar. The suspect then s...

Daughter who has paranoid schizophrenia, and she was finally diagnosed with that when she was arnd 22. Weve gone thtough trial after trial, and j jt all kinds of tribulationonand whatnot. Then i started teaching, because i felt like there just werent enough people educated about Mental Health. I evolved into Teaching Mental Health first aid, which is a first aid what it says. Just like cpr and whatnot, this is for people who would like to know what to do if they see someone in a crisis, or someo...

Americans attitudes towards restrictions on guns compared to those in industrialized countries. We are going to deal specifically here with gun violence in cedar rapids, iowa. We have my three distinguished panelists today. To my immediate left we have stacey walker, community activist. Good morning. Stacey walker morning. Karl cassell to his immediate left we have cedar rapids chief of police, wayne jerman. Good morning. Chief jerman good morning karl. Karl cassell on the end we have susie wein...

You all for being here. I look forward to our conversation. Mister lynch, im like to direct the first question to you. It seems to me that its safe to say that the general view of government in the United States is that its broken and dysfunctional. Im reminded of a book that was published in 2012 called its worse than it looks. Is our government really in as bad a shape as popular opinion would have it . James probably, in the big picture i would say there are a lot of things that we can find t...

Others fear a slippery slope that would eventually lead us to value some lives more than others. Should iowa pass an aid ii dying law . Do we have an absolute right over our own lives . Should physicians help us to die on our own terms . Or do we have a moral obligation to accept our lives a. D our deathson terms other than our own will . . Have a greattanel on today to discuss these issues. To my left is becky benson, the director of the university of iowa pediatric Palliative Care program. Tha...

Poorly educated whites . Weve asked today to discuss this complex and interesting and very troubling topic, we have three people. First to my left is pramod dwivedi, who is t linn county director of Public Health. Next to him is erin davis, associate professor of sociology from cornell. Erin davis morning bob sessions and david jepsen, retired prorossor of education frfr university of iowa. David jepsen thank you for having us. Bob sessions thank you all for joining us this morning. Pramod dwive...