Q. Why is the Cedar Falls Post Office not required to have a handicapped accessible door for patrons?
A. Postmaster Dan Kuhn said the building is handicapped accessible and meets federal requirements. The surface leading to the primary door is flat so people in wheelchairs can enter. However, the door won't automatically open for patrons. Kuhn said people with special needs have requested an automatic door, but there are no plans to install one at this time. He said that could change in the future.
Q. Was Ronald Reagan part of bringing the wall down in Germany 20 years ago?
A. Yes. President Reagan left office 11 months before the Berlin Wall fell. His speech before Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, in which he said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" was delivered in June 1987, more that two years before the Wall fell. In a Nov. 9, 1989, interview with ABC's Sam Donaldson, the former president said, "I didn't know when it would come, but I have to tell you, I'm an eternal optimist." Nonetheless, Reagan's combination of firmness and diplomacy with Soviet Union premier Mikhail Gorbachev is generally viewed as having much to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ultimate collapse of communism in eastern Europe and of the Soviet Union, according to a Nov. 9 online Time magazine article by Romesh Ratnesar adapted from his book, "Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War."
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Q. In the Daily Record in the Courier, what is the different between a rescue response and medical response?
A. A rescue response usually involves removing and treating a person from a vehicle following a traffic accident. It can also relate to people caught in the river or trapped in elevators or similar situations, although those are usually listed as "rescue from elevator" or "water rescue." Medical responses are ambulance calls where the patient is suffering from an illness or injury.
Q. Will Michael Jackson's movie "This Is It" be coming out on DVD?
A. According to Rolling Stone, a DVD will be released sometime early next year. The disc is already available for preorder on sites like Amazon.com in both DVD and Blu-ray format.
Q. I signed up to have yard signs for Buck Clark placed in my yard but never received them. Why didn't they put them out?
A. Clark said it was not intentional. "We had volunteers putting up yard signs and we had so many requests, unfortunately a few of the requests slipped through the cracks." You can contact Clark about signs at his home, 233-0421.
Q. What is the reason Buck Clark isn't on the police department anymore?
A. "I took an early retirement 1998 to pursue other interests in life, politics being one," Clark said. "I had been a police officer for a little over 22 years with 18 of them being in Waterloo and I was ready to try my hand at other ventures."
