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Prepare to be scanned, Cedar Rapidians. Your City Council on Tuesday, ‘without council or public comment” as Rick Smith wrote …
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Iowa Democrats gave out their Hall of Fame awards in Cedar Rapids Friday night, honoring officeholders and activists who have …
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Rollout of the long anticipated Johnson County Community ID begins Friday, another Midwestern first courtesy of the People’s Republic. The …
This may be what happens when history is hidden or allowed to fall into the trap of selective memory. Cedar …
Thanks to Schoolhouse Rock, I can no longer read the preamble to the Constitution. I must sing it. ‘We the …
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