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A bipartisan, three-member board will recount ballots cast in a Linn County statehouse race starting Tuesday.
Also in weekly edition of Government Notes: Iowa City Council members hold listening post Monday night.
Cedar Rapids is exploring a pilot program to allow goat grazing to clear invasive species and unwieldy brush in unmaintained areas of city parks. Staff are working with the Bever Park Neighborhood Association to pilot the effort in 2023.
After years of service — in the U.S. Navy, as an assistant Johnson County attorney and always as a community volunteer — Scott Finlayson is taking on a new role as Johnson County’s next treasurer.
Local governments in Eastern Iowa — and throughout the country — were given a “historic” opportunity to invest in their communities through the American Rescue Plan Act. Here’s how the cities of Coralville and North Liberty plan to spend their dollars.
Nonprofit Trees Forever this year piloted Neighborhood Tree Captains and tree voucher programs to empower residents to replant on their private properties. These programs were developed as part of the ReLeaf effort to reforest Cedar Rapids after the derecho.
The city of North Liberty is negotiating with the property owner to acquire the nearly 45 acres of land for a community park on the side’s northwest side.
The supervisors originally
A report from an advocacy group uses state and federal data to calculate owed wages that are not paid to Iowa workers
Also, Terrace Hill gets ready for Christmas
The Primary Source Sets — photos, maps, documents, audio recordings and even cartoons — cover more than 65 broad topics about Iowa and its role in the broader sweep of national and world history, including the Underground Railroad, women’s suffrage, the Cold War and the Iowa caucuses.
Iowa lost many older workers who are not being replaced by younger or new Iowans, the ISU professor says.
Also, Iowa’s new state income tax rates are set for 2023
The new affordable housing development will add 44 rental units in Cedar Rapids with supportive services provided by Foundation 2. Some units are set aside for youth aging out of foster care to help set this vulnerable population up for success.
