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Online services like HomeAway and Airbnb make it easier for visitors to book spare bedrooms and otherwise vacant dwellings as …
Staff Editorial Staff Editorials Sep. 11, 2016 10:52 am3313d ago
Back in June, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources predicted another record year for beach closures due to toxic blue …
Staff Editorials Sep. 11, 2016 10:52 am3313d ago
With staff approval in one hand and commission rezoning denial in the other, members of the Cedar Rapids City Council …
Staff Editorials Sep. 8, 2016 10:57 am3316d ago
A $3.6 billion wind energy project recently approved by the Iowa Utilities Board is just one more example of the …
Staff Editorials Sep. 4, 2016 11:53 am3320d ago
If Gov. Terry Branstad and the Department of Human Services truly want us to believe handing Iowa’s Medicaid program over …
Staff Editorials Sep. 1, 2016 9:49 am3323d ago
Area leaders still wondering if there’s an appetite in the metro for night time activities need look no further than …
Staff Editorials Aug. 28, 2016 9:44 am3327d ago
With apologies to Schoolhouse Rock, a three-eighths-cent sales tax increase needed to fill the Iowa Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation …
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Staff Editorials Aug. 28, 2016 9:44 am3327d ago
It’s been nearly nine years since Iowa’s lowest-income earners got a raise. That’s far too long, in our view. But …
Staff Editorials Aug. 20, 2016 11:54 am3335d ago
Marion voters will get a chance in November to change the way they’ve been electing city council members for decades. …
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Staff Editorials Aug. 18, 2016 1:28 pm3337d ago
Staff Editorial, We’ve no doubt the Iowa Board of Regents has ideas about how the state’s higher education institutions should …
Staff Editorials Aug. 13, 2016 7:00 am3342d ago
Here’s to Gov. Terry Branstad’s decision this week to order a comprehensive review of state laws governing liquor, wine and …
Staff Editorials Aug. 11, 2016 8:40 am3344d ago
There are many unanswered questions in the Cedar Rapids Community School District’s handling of a substitute teacher’s inappropriate relationship with …
Staff Editorials Aug. 9, 2016 8:00 am3346d ago
Iowa’s Environmental Protection Commission is poised to make an important decision this week with blinding speed and too little input …
Staff Editorials Aug. 6, 2016 8:00 am3349d ago
Iowa environmental regulators think it’s a bad idea to build a confinement operation for 2,499 hogs in Allamakee County on …
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