Rank returned to Iowa after her father died, to be closer to her daughters and help raise her grandson. She walks along Grandview Avenue, which veers away from the Mississippi, leading her toward the bakery along a mile and a half of gardened boulevards and parks she's still discovering after three years in Dubuque. A day after Rank's letter to the editor ran, the New York Times wrote about a small city in Oregon whose libraries are all closing amid an anti-tax movement. "There's a neighboring town where two months ago a big issue was people didn't want to pay for sidewalks."Īnd she'd heard of another town that had a dust-up over a library. "Then I thought about the sidewalk," she said. Thus her question in the letter: "Why should I pay for a bridge. Her walk parallels the Mississippi River and the great public bridges that span it into other states. "Didn't we learn this in fifth-grade social studies?" On Tuesday, she was thinking about what Blum had said - about men being forced to pay for maternity insurance. every day, she said, and walks four miles through Dubuque to get the first cup of coffee from a bakery.
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