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.
With COVID racing toward pandemic status in the spring of 2020, University of Iowa International Programs made the unprecedented decision to bring home its hundreds of study abroad students scattered around the globe — from Australia to Tanzania, Estonia to Iceland.
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.
Iowa Lottery sales have continued to be “strong and resilient,” totaling $178.5 million in the first five months of fiscal 2022 – a 6.7 percent increase from the same period a year earlier. However, Lottery CEO Matt Strawn is monitoring the growth in sports betting and the increased competition for discretionary entertainment dollars.
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.
Storm blows over semi in Walford, killing the driver. It was the only reported fatality from the unusual December thunderstorm.
Mercy Medical Center and UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids have postponed all elective and nonemergent surgeries through Christmas, effective immediately. The decision comes just a day after Iowa broke records for COVID-19 hospitalizations, surpassing more than 800 patients this week.
One person has died in Iowa as a powerful storm system swept across the Great Plains and Midwest, authorities said, bringing hurricane-force wind gusts and spawning reported tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa.
Community members and students voice concerns that the Iowa City school district’s diversity, equity and inclusion plan is not enough.
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.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Tuesday for arson after police say he threatened to burn down a woman’s house in the 1100 block of Crestview Drive SE.
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