Articles Tagged: Linn County

A redevelopment plan has been drafted to complement the micro-area action plan prepared last year.

Matt Majeski has been working with people his entire career, from when he started studying psychology in college to his job now as the chief executive officer of the Hawkeye Area Community Action Program — a role that he started on Jan. 1.

Close to 200 students at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids walked out of school at noon Friday as part of a nationwide protest calling for “no work, no school, no shopping” to oppose federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities. A little more than two miles away, about a 100 more people protested near Coe College in downtown Cedar Rapids.

In an effort to protect a “regional asset,” area municipalities are looking to collaborate on a potential expansion of the Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency landfill.

Kianna McCune, mother of 16 year-old Michael McCune, who was ambushed and fatally shot in 2023, asked Wednesday — for the fifth time — for for justice during a sentencing for the fourth teen convicted in her son’s murder.

The county was able to bump its fiscal year 2027 increase up from its original expectation of 3.5 percent, thanks to a larger-than-expected budget surplus.

Cedar Rapids City Council members this week approved standard financial incentives for the project.

Cedar Rapids City Council members this week approved a plan to revitalize the park and to make road improvements in the area.

The Linn County Planning and Zoning Commission has pressed pause on a drafted zoning code about gas-fired electric generating facilities, citing a desire for additional information on proposed setbacks included in the code.

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services is proposing to dissolve the state’s long-standing Early Childhood Iowa structure and replace it with a district-based system modeled after Iowa’s behavioral health and disability services overhaul.

Former City Clerk Cynthia Stimson is urging the Fairfax City Council to reappoint her to the role and allow her to work through June 30 to ease the transition.

Data center developers would be required to prove their project would not cause “undue adverse effects” to Linn County’s water system before being allowed to build in rural areas under a draft zoning code headed to the county board of supervisors.

The vote comes less than two weeks after the council voted 3-2 against the retention of longtime City Clerk Cynthia Stimson.

Cari McCoy will oversee the organization through the upcoming opening of its new Prairie Summit location.

Also in this week’s Government Notes roundup, Linn-Mar schools has hired superintendent search firm to find the district’s next leader.