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Winners Business Leaders – Winning mayoral candidate Ron Corbett gave his opponents the business Tuesday with the help of strong …
That’s all she wrote. At 8:38 p.m., the Iowa City votes all are counted with financial planner Susan Mims and downtown …
On this blessed day when bickering yields to voting, I offer praise to the office-seekers. By now, they could use …
It’s moment-of-truth time in the race for mayor. Will Ron Corbett, a candidate for four seasons, lead the City of …
It’s just one part of the sprawling, 1,990-page health care reform bill House Democrats unveiled last week. But proposed changes …
A major step forward in Legislative ethics was taken Wednesday. And I’m ethically bound to admit that’s not true. The House …
Gov. Chet Culver stepped in it again this week. But this time, I felt his pain. On Saturday, Culver’s office …
Cedar Rapids City Council and mayoral candidates have been using (and using and using) a wide array of insider terms, …
Quick, solve this problem: Mary has six apples and four times as many oranges. How many more oranges than apples …
Traditionally, newspapers deliver a “get out and vote” message on Election Day. But I’m nagging you a week early. That …
Once again Sunday, I sat in judgment over a broad field of competitors hungry for glory, and maybe some kibble. My …
Hundreds of state employees are on the brink of having their jobs washed away in a wave of budget cuts. …
It was Postville that convinced Polk County Sheriff Bill McCarthy that it’s time for immigration reform. So much so, the …
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