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In 2009, a minor controversy in a mid-sized town in Indiana involving two homosexual penguins was resolved when the penguins …
Editorial Fellow | Austin Wu A few weeks ago I received what is a high-water mark in my short writing …
NTS now covers the entirety of Cedar Rapids, Marion, and Hiawatha
One of the sources used by Alexander Rapp in mapping out old public transit routes in eastern Iowa: an ad for the streetcar in Cedar Rapids and Marion, from the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette and Republican, from Friday, 9 October 1931. These lines were replaced by buses by 1937. Courtesey of Alexander Rapp.
When commenting on the recent purchase of land for a potential passenger rail station, Iowa City Manager Geoff Fruin was …
A few weeks ago, it was reported that three residential properties were purchased by the city of Iowa City for …
In March of 2018, a classical music composer in Ohio wrote the following, as part of a larger comment on …
Although it appears at the time of writing that a large strike among freight railroad workers has been averted, the …
There are more ways to measure development than wealth alone
The recent public announcement on KCRG of an effort to bring a trolley line to downtown Cedar Rapids and surrounding …
For the first time in almost a century, one of Canada’s largest cities, Vancouver, will have a comprehensive plan. Called …
In one of my later pieces for the Iowa City Press-Citizen, I briefly mentioned an artifact in my possession, a …
It would not be so far of a stretch to apply the Amtrak model to buses
Intercity buses have a number of genuine advantages over private car travel.
