Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids

In Iowa, where Trump’s executive order pushing for forcible hospitalization over supportive housing could have significant implications, one homeless services provider says “Nothing in the order does anything that is proven to end homelessness. And in fact, it does the opposite.”

A plea for help made last week by a nonprofit grocery store in Cedar Rapids has sparked a large response from community members to support the store’s goal of providing food for a neighborhood that would be a food desert if not for its presence.

The discovery of dozens of temporary, unpermitted wells on a Cedar Rapids construction site has set off a flurry of public confusion and regulatory response across several governmental bodies over the last month.

University of Iowa Health Care is looking to expand and further cement its “commitment to serving Cedar Rapids” by capitalizing on the retirement of a private practitioner and buying his 37,850-square-foot medical office building.

This summer, the Schwartzkopf Gallery’s first international artist expounds on a classic poet’s wisdom about longing through several series spanning written and visual mediums.

The Academy for Scholastic & Personal Success’ summer program provides high school students an education they can’t find in a public school classroom. It teaches students about Black history, literature, math, science and financial literacy. The 2025 summer session concludes Friday with a closing ceremony.

The two projects will add a combined 48 units to western Cedar Rapids in previously flood-ravaged areas.

Iowa state Rep. J.D. Scholten, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, described himself as a “baseball-playing, monopoly-busting, beer-drinking, Bible-reading, working-class proud prairie populist from Sioux City, Iowa, and a sixth generation Iowan” when he spoke with dozens of people who turned out for a Cedar Rapids campaign event Tuesday evening.

A Cedar Rapids woman was arrested Tuesday on charges that she stole almost $25,000 from her father, a dependent adult for whom she was caretaker.

I’ll Meet You There, a new venture from duo Lindsay and Jaymie McGrath, tentatively plans to open late this year.

A Kingston Village restaurant staple is on the market.

In an effort to comply with state law, the Cedar Rapids City Council on Tuesday voted 7-2 to advance a staff proposal to eliminate the section of the city’s municipal code outlining the makeup and responsibilities of the citizen review board.

Two Cedar Rapids men — one of whom was arrested last year on charges he stole copper and wiring from an industrial site — are facing charges after the theft of copper wire from Mercy Medical Center.

A Golden Arches in northeast Cedar Rapids has reopened after several months of renovations.

Several executive leadership positions were removed from a revised personnel report approved by the Cedar Rapids school board Monday. It was the second time in a week the board has considered approval of a personnel report after last week’s vote failed.