Highway fatalities are rising in Iowa and law enforcement officials believe the state’s difficult-to-enforce laws on distracted driving are playing a role.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Highway fatalities are rising in Iowa and law enforcement officials believe the state’s difficult-to-enforce laws on distracted driving are playing a role.
By adding railroad crossing gates and flashing lights, Cedar Rapids may apply to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration for a quiet zone designation that reduces the use of train whistles by up to 40 percent. The project has been delayed by COVID-19 and material shortages.
Randy Evans of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council speaks to the challenges of successfully filing open records requests with government entities.
The Cedar Rapids Charter Review Commission voted Thursday to recommend changes that would broaden ethics language for the city’s top officials and also keep the door open for ranked choice voting in the future.
Local leaders ‘disappointed’ the project did not make RAISE Grant funding list
The law was previously halted in 2018. Gov. Kim Reynolds is asking the courts to lift the injunction after recent U.S. and Iowa Supreme Court rulings overturned abortion bans.
Residents will have a chance to meet the candidates at Marion City Hall from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
If approved, the project would begin operating by the end of 2024
Tax incentives estimated at a $3 million value will support Altorfer’s creation of a 150,000 square-foot office, sales and service facility at 8400 Sixth St. SW that will serve as the company’s new headquarters.
RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, in Iowa, says she put state party chairman Jeff Kaufmann in an influential position because she wanted to keep Iowa's first-in-the-nation status
President Joe Biden, whose son Beau died of cancer years after deploying to Iraq, signed legislation Wednesday expanding federal health care services for veterans who served at bases where toxic smoke billowed from “burn pits.”
Kim Downs has been in Hiawatha post since 2013
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