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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 someone having problems. Leon leslie, youre also a member of our community who has been affected by Menta...

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 weinacht, city council member. Good morning. Susie weinacht good morning karl. Karl cassell thank you fo...

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. Thanks so much for being on, becky. Becky benson thank you. ScOtt Samuelson Francis Degnin, a professor...

Are. Dr. Brad buck says the district is proud of how its schools performed in this latest report card. He recognizes there are improvements that need to be made, but he says its important for people to remember this report grades the states schools on a curve. So, he wasnt totally surprised that none of cedar rapids schools made it into the top two rating categories. 41 43 58 the chances of having schools in there is small. So when you sort of cououe that with wre we are in the district, its not completely surprising, just because there e rent going to be a lot of schools s those categories st...

Linda livingsto its good to be here. Scott samuelson okay, well becky, lets just start off with the big question. Should iowa have a law that allows mentally competent, terminally ill adults to voluntarily request and receive drugs to end their own lives . Becky benson well, i think thats a very difficult question. I think my first answer to that would be that i dont think that thats the best solution to how do we take better care of people at the end of their lives. I think that putting more money and emphasis into Palliative Care programs and really i think weve become disconnected from the ...