Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids

The Cedar Rapids City Council this week approved tax incentives for two new warehouses in the southwest quadrant for Hy-Vee and Worley Warehousing.

In the Downtown Ambassador program, formerly homeless people keep an eye on the park, explain the rules, refer people to community services.

The Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival has announced the 2022 Heroes: Willie Ray Fairley, Robert Feiereisen and Bridgette Robinson. Selected through a community nomination process, they will be honored at The Tribute to Heroes Dinner on June 17 and act as parade marshals in the Freedom Festival parade on June 25.

The state ethics board issued a reprimand and civil penalty of $200 each to former Cedar Rapids mayoral candidate Amara Andrews and Linn County Democrats chair Bret Nilles for a campaign mailer advocating against then-candidate Tiffany O’Donnell.

The Irish vocal ensemble normally makes the rounds in the vicinity of St. Patrick's Day, but everything is a bit different because of pandemic pauses.

Lewis, who will perform Sunday at the McGrath Amphitheatre in Cedar Rapids, lays out his pointed opinions with his latest hit, “Am I the Only One,” a right-wing anthem which assails The Boss: “Am I the only one who quits singing along/Every time they play a Springsteen song?”

With the Country Club’s expansion receiving the OK from five voting City Council members, questions remain over whether the city should tighten language in its ethics policy guiding how the part-time elected officials declare conflicts of interest

Several area splash pads and pools are scheduled to be open this Memorial Day weekend.

Sweetie’s Ice Cream Parlor serves up a sweet tooth nostalgia thattranscends generational differences.

Cedar Rapids’ last-ditch plea to Gov. Kim Reynolds to veto the proposed two-year moratorium on new casinos may go unheeded, as a vocal opponent contributed to campaigns of Republican legislative leadership.

The innovation lab at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids helped build an adaptive keyboard for Lotus Friedman, a 13-year-old from Dubuque who was paralyzed from the waist down after a skiing accident earlier this year. The ability to play her favorite game is a reprieve from day-to-day hospital life, she said.

See where you can get a $10 gift card in his restaurant tour this summer.

Tropical Smoothie Cafe, a chain with more than 1,000 locations across the country, has opened its first Cedar Rapids site on Edgewood Road.

Chef Daniel Velasquez is cooking up his signature fry bread and street foods with a nod to his Native American culture.

Cedar Rapids leaders were preparing to applying to the state for a new casino in their third such effort since 2014.