Updates on turnout numbers and comments from voters during the 2021 city and school elections.
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Updates on turnout numbers and comments from voters during the 2021 city and school elections.
County auditors said the surge in early voting was due to hotly-contested races and because auditors tried new things, such as printing absentee ballot request forms in the Penny Saver and hosting a “Friday Night Lights” polling site at a Solon football game.
COVID-19 altered how faculty members across Iowa’s public universities spent their work days in the last academic year – draining hours spent in a classroom and decreasing time on research and scholarship while spiking virtual instruction and online grading and preparation.
Check back here soon after polls close for Eastern Iowa city and school elections results, including the Cedar Rapids mayor race and Linn County gambling referendum.
She told a radio audience Tuesday she expects to join other states in challenging a Biden administration directive requiring employers with 100 or more employees to mandate that all employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or else undergo weekly testing, once the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issues its emergency temporary standard.
The polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday as voters cast their ballots in Iowa’s city and school board elections.
The owner of a Cedar Rapids office supply store saved a steam locomotive from the scrap yard and brought it to Cedar Rapids.
Remodeled classrooms for the industrial technology program, Family and Consumer Science, agriculture and business in the main building and a multipurpose building with a full-size gym will be completed by summer 2022.
More than 200 exhibitors from about 20 states will be selling toys and collectibles
The purpose of the funding is to assist nonprofit organizations in responding to short-term or one-time emergency needs and to support programs and strategies that help lift households out of poverty.
The Caring Dads Program has a goal of helping fathers improve their relationships with their children and end controlling, abusive and neglectful behavior.
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