What’s Brad Hart’s plan once he leaves office as Cedar Rapids mayor? For now, he’s looking to “find another way to serve” and reflecting upon the progress the city has made in the last four years.
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What’s Brad Hart’s plan once he leaves office as Cedar Rapids mayor? For now, he’s looking to “find another way to serve” and reflecting upon the progress the city has made in the last four years.
The Biden administration announced Thursday its plan to bolster the trucking industry by recruiting more drivers and reducing delays in issuing licenses, but the moves are not likely to have any major immediate effect on filling in the supply gain gaps that are keeping goods from consumers.
Several Iowa media organizations and the ACLU of Iowa are suing Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and her staff, charging they broke Iowa’s open records law by failing to provide records about the Iowa State Patrol’s border deployment, private fundraising at the governor’s residence, and Reynolds’ messages to meatpacking plant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, among other requests.
Most of us don’t know about the backroom deal that helped secure the interstate’s passage through Cedar Rapids, the alternate routes it could have taken or about the two people who died in the push to open the highway.
Homes and businesses of the Little Mexico neighborhood in Cedar Rapids were razed in the 1960s to build I-380 in Cedar Rapids. Dozens of immigrant families were displaced. The notion of erasing a non-white neighborhood to make way for progress is now seen through a different lens.
After early plans for redevelopment faltered, work is beginning on a $49 million mixed-use, multifamily development at 515 Fourth Ave. SE. The project will bring commercial space and over 200 mixed-income residential units.
The Iowa Republican says he was unaware -- until he saw published reports last weekend -- of a PowerPoint presentation outlining how Congress could challenge the 2020 presidential election results, including declaring a national security emergency and seizing paper ballots.
The proposal to create a self-imposed taxing district in the south side of Iowa City looks to revitalize local businesses in the Pepperwood Plaza south of Highway 6.
The updated proposal for a senior living facility near Hickory Hill Park received unanimous final approval on Tuesday and praise from council members as a win for the city and community.
Although members of the Iowa Board of Parole had unanimously recommended that the governor consider granting the requests from five prison “lifers,” the governor did not approve the extraordinary remedy.
Applications are being accepted now for the committee, which will complete an annual greenhouse gas inventory for the county.
Liquor sales topped $400 million for the first time with a total of $415.8 million worth of products containing alcohol consumed during the 12 months that ran from July 1, 2020, until June 30 of this year, according to the latest annual report issued Tuesday by the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division.
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