By Karen Mills The message from President Barack Obama is clear: We must give small businesses the tools they need …
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By Karen Mills The message from President Barack Obama is clear: We must give small businesses the tools they need …
State lawmakers pared their agenda this past week ahead of the annual “funnel” deadline. Non-budgetary bills that failed to clear …
By Garrison Keillor It is a large moment for Democrats, learning to stick with a good man through a rough …
The 2010 Olympic Winter Games have begun. But how do they compare to the real winter we’re experiencing? Let’s find …
About 80 percent of more than 1,000 Cedar Rapids downtown area businesses damaged by the 2008 flood reopened within a …
Things are better along First Avenue East. Crime is down. A police substation is getting some of the credit. And …
By Samantha Dahlby I am a member of the Millennial generation, and research shows that we Millennials believe and participate …
By Susan Estrich My friend Ethel is mad as hell, but she has no choice but to keep taking it. …
Before any more good ideas for making this town a better place to live end up DOA in a struggle …
Where would we be without the immigrant professionals who fill a significant number of health care positions, both locally and …
Good ideas and Bad ideas. Good Idea — State lawmakers are moving to remove regulatory barriers for beer brewers and …
Hunting around the archives for constitutional convention stuff, I came across this front page notice in the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette the …
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