For the first time since the pandemic started, Cedar Rapids Transit will reboot Saturday service. But it’ll still be a while before the city makes a determination on offering long-hoped-for evening hours after COVID-19 paused those plans.
Tom Treharne, the city’s community development director, talks about new apartments, affordable housing
Also, the conservative Americans for Prosperity endorses the primary challenger to a Republican incumbent state lawmaker
White House says the aid is expected to support Ukraine's needs for five months.
Sand, an attorney by trade
Messages on electronic signs are designed to make motorists correct bad behavior and drive more safely, but they can draw a driver’s mind from the road, said Joshua Madsen, an assistant accounting professor and behavioral scientist at the University of Minnesota who co-authored the study published last week
The debates are scheduled for May 7 and May 19, and will be televised by Hearst TV stations and Iowa PBS
Seth Zimmermann of Solon, a Democrat, said he is seeking election as a county supervisor because he wants to involve all the county’s residents in COVID-19 recovery, support local businesses and protect the environment.
Frew Development is seeking workforce housing tax credits to support a $34 million housing project to add 200 units as part of the Westdale Mall redevelopment. City Council also OK’d projects in NewBo, the northwest quadrant and former TaxAct site.
Jill Dodds, who has been on Coralville City Council since 2012, has resigned from the Coralville City Council after being asked to leave by the mayor amid child sex abuse allegations against her husband.
Also, state lawmakers passed child care staffing ratio changes
Iowa will become just the fourth state with 16 weeks or fewer of state unemployment benefits under legislation that needs only Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signature to become law.
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