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Homers -- What's going right
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Mar. 19, 2012 12:50 am
WEBSITE HONORS: Johnson County's government website is one of best among 6,000 public sites recently evaluated by Sunshine Review, a national non-profit organization dedicated to government transparency. JOCO's site received high marks in 11 of 12 categories. Only two other Iowa public entities won similar honors: Ankeny schools and Scott County.
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LINN-MAR AGAIN: Since 1981, seven Cedar Rapids metro area preps have been named Iowa Mr. Basketball by the Iowa Newspaper Association. Three of them played for Linn-Mar, including this year's award winner, Marcus Paige, a North Carolina recruit.
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FACEBOOK CELEBRITIES: Can you claim more than 45,000 Facebook friends? Well, a pair of Decorah eagle parents and their chicks can. It's the latest measurement of just how fascinated the world has become over the past couple of hatching seasons as webcam technology provided live video of family life in a nest.
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WHAT MONTH IS IT? So far, Maylike temperatures in much of March. Ahhhh - at least for now.
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