It seemed like a fairly straightforward question. The Cedar Rapids School District is considering school closures and boundary changes, due, …
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It seemed like a fairly straightforward question. The Cedar Rapids School District is considering school closures and boundary changes, due, …
Iowa’s presidential caucuses are famous for winnowing the field. But it’s usually candidates that drop out in the aftermath, not …
My neighbor, Dustin, said I should write about the big corn sculpture. For a moment, I was a little confused. …
I got a call last week from John Johnson — the guy whose Jan. 5 letter to the editor (“I-380 speeding tickets hurting C.R. …
After watching a local-option sales tax extension dramatically defeated last May, it seems like something is missing as we near …
What makes a teacher great? We could discuss that question for days. Or the even tougher question: How do we …
Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett didn’t have to work too hard to manufacture a greeting for President Obama Wednesday. “When …
People like to gripe about the Haves and the Have-nots. The special treatment, the small considerations the Haves enjoy even …
We now know that closing an elementary school saves the Cedar Rapids School District anywhere from $600,000 to $757,000 annually. …
Cedar Rapids had a City Council election in November, and, from my vantage point, the city’s use of automated traffic …
I mentioned in a post a couple of weeks ago that the Cedar Rapids School District’s facilities process (aka closing …
So I’m waiting for Patton. Heck, I might even settle for Bluto Blutarsky and his Germans at Pearl Harbor. I’m …
A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but a proposal to rename Iowa City’s Broadway Street in …
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