Democratic nominee for governor Jack Hatch told the Downtown Rotary Club Monday that Cedar Rapids doesn’t have a friend in …
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Democratic nominee for governor Jack Hatch told the Downtown Rotary Club Monday that Cedar Rapids doesn’t have a friend in …
Severance pay – a voluntary offer of payment, usually tied to length of service, from an employer to a terminated …
MAILING IT IN: Absentee voting requests have nearly doubled since the 2010 elections. Nearly 58,000 Democrats have requested absentee ballots, …
PAYING TOO MUCH: A report by the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general notes the Iowa City Post Office has paid …
Pirates are out. Fair play is in. That’s the message from Cedar Rapids and Hiawatha officials as they approve a …
Back in January, Gov. Terry Branstad predicted Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds would become governor once his time in office ended. …
When the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs created the individual unemployability benefit in the 1930s, Social Security didn’t exist, manual …
READ ALL ABOUT IT: Books set in Iowa by authors Marilynne Robinson and Jane Smiley are among 10 nominees announced …
ON THE SIDELINES: The University of Iowa Department of Public Safety reports 20 arrests were made on Iowa-Iowa State gameday, …
There always seems to be a perfectly good reason for not fixing our nation’s broken immigration system. Too often, however, …
If a long overdue effort to finally complete a trails network in the Cedar Rapids metro area gets scrapped, you …
Last week’s Cedar Rapids School District vote on raising the Physical Plant and Equipment Levy, or PPEL, provides fresh evidence …
Before Iowa lawmakers give a nod to the Iowa Regents’ request for $12.9 million supplemental funding, a task force should …
ENDING IT ALL: At least 445 Iowans took their own lives in 2013, making suicide the second-leading cause of death …
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