Three years after the closure of the Iowa Juvenile Home in Toledo, local officials are unable to provide safe and …
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Three years after the closure of the Iowa Juvenile Home in Toledo, local officials are unable to provide safe and …
Staff Editorial Staff Editorials Aug. 7, 2017 7:30 am2983d ago
Ten years ago, more Iowans could access homes within their budgets. But the combination of stagnant wages and increased costs …
Staff Editorials Aug. 5, 2017 9:30 am2985d ago
Kirkwood Community College will ask voters in its seven-county region on Sept. 12 to renew a bond issue for the …
Staff Editorials Aug. 4, 2017 12:30 pm2986d ago
A sliver of Linn County voters decided Tuesday to keep the current representation plan for the Board of Supervisors. The …
Staff Editorials Jul. 29, 2017 8:00 am2992d ago
Sixty-nine years ago this week, President Harry Truman signed a pair of executive orders barring discrimination on the basis of …
Staff Editorials Jul. 27, 2017 8:24 am2994d ago
Higher education in Iowa is facing several significant challenges – none of which can be solved in isolation. So, it …
Staff Editorials Jul. 23, 2017 8:25 am2998d ago
Ten years ago this weekend, we weighed in on a special election to determine a representation plan for the Linn …
Staff Editorials Jul. 20, 2017 8:45 am3001d ago
Linn County this week joined the ranks of local entities from around the country pledging to meet the spirit of …
Staff Editorials Jul. 16, 2017 9:00 am3005d ago
As the smoke clears, emotions are running high and the numbers are sobering. In Cedar Rapids, the first weeks of …
Staff Editorials Jul. 15, 2017 7:00 am3006d ago
The first of many doses of bad news spawned by Iowa’s 2018 budget mess involves a cut in natural resources …
Staff Editorials Jul. 13, 2017 8:00 am3008d ago
If a new pedestrian safety ordinance was as narrowly crafted as Cedar Rapids officials claim it is, we’d be more …
Staff Editorials Jul. 9, 2017 10:59 am3012d ago
With documented violations of rules governing seclusion rooms in two of the state’s largest school districts, it’s clear such inappropriate …
Staff Editorials Jul. 6, 2017 11:00 am3015d ago
There always seem to be a few people who can’t play by the rules. And, unfortunately for those who gathered …
Staff Editorials Jul. 4, 2017 7:30 am3017d ago
We would be remiss on this day commemorating our founders’ reaction to an unbreachable divide if we did not issue …
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