First, an apology. I’m sorry I won’t be at Monday evening’s Cedar Rapids School Board meeting. A long-planned family vacation …
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First, an apology. I’m sorry I won’t be at Monday evening’s Cedar Rapids School Board meeting. A long-planned family vacation …
If your roof leaked, you could set out an army of pans and buckets all over the floor to catch …
(Today’s print column) Tuesday’s rejection of a local-option sales tax extension for flood protection looked razor close on paper. But …
We know now that LOST lost again. It wasn’t as close as last time, though still close. So apparently, as …
What to do about payday lenders, those storefront operations promising quick cash for a postdated check and a “small” fee? …
Sunday’s column generated a fair amount of mail. A reader in the College Community district clarified the picture there: College …
Thanks to the Inter-Religious Council of Linn County for hosting a thoughtful discussion about Iowa’s child protection system on today’s …
At the last Cedar Rapids School Board meeting, defenders of Polk Elementary, many of them moms, spoke passionately of the …
As Cedar Rapids voters ready to weigh in for the second time in a year on a flood protection tax …
Got tied up with other things yesterday, so I neglected to comment on the Big Democratic Statehouse Walkout of 2012, and …
Or a public access television studio, more like. Watch us cover it all in just 30 minutes on Yale Cohn’s show: …
So, where were we? Oh, yeah, upstream. On Tuesday, I wrote that the Army Corps of Engineers is designing its …
So I’m reading the New York Times dining section, page D6, dead tree edition even, when I came across this …
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