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has left the elderly residents of those facilities in a “precarious position.”

Retail chain’s board formal action taken day after Cedar Rapids workers notified of pending job cuts

Nineteen states have embraced full legalization of marijuana, while 19 others have enacted medical marijuana programs.

The median home price in Marion climbed by 7 percent over the past year -- a “significant” increase, a consultant told Marion City Council Tuesday.

Representatives of Ingredion and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 100G -- now in its seventh week of a strike against the manufacturer’s Cedar Rapids facility -- were asked to leave Hotel Kirkwood Tuesday morning because the two sides became heated over Ingredion officials bringing armed security professionals with them, the union said.

The Iowa City branch, anticipated to open later this year, will be at 300 S. Clinton St. in the first floor of the Edge.

Efforts in Iowa will focus in Cedar Rapids -- where both ADM and PepsiCo have factories -- and in Clinton.

Much of their inability to act comes from a fear of making a mistake.