Large Cedar Rapids festival planning in final stretch
GO Cedar Rapids staff race to lock in contracts permits and licenses six weeks before the Aug 3 to 5 event. The Newbo evolve festival aims to host Maroon 5 Kelly Clarkson and a lineup including Adam Rippon Clint Harp and other speakers and performers as planners push toward a major city event.
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Cedar Rapids Museum to mark 125th with Impressionist touring exhibit
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art plans a 2020 125th anniversary push featuring an American and French Impressionism touring show. It includes Degas The Singer La Chanteuse from 1875 to 1880 lent by Reading Public Museum, plus works by Renoir Pissarro Cassatt Sargent Chase. The Reading show will travel to Cedar Rapids as the Midwest stop.
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Immigration families still apart as reunions loom
The Los Angeles Times reports federal officials say reunifying families separated at the border could take months. Lawyers advocates and lawmakers describe the path ahead as murky and chaotic while the Trump administration offers no clear directions. Daniel Garza of Libre Initiative calls four months agonizing. Page reference 9A.
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Father Son Reunion After Mount Pleasant Immigration Raid
Elmer Urizar, 35, held after a May 9 raid on MPC Midwest Inc., will be released from detention and reunited with his teenage son. Magistrate Judge Stephen Jackson ruled Urizar posed a flight risk but could be secured outside jail while the case proceeds. Urizar, also called Uriza, was among 82 men arrested by ICE in the raid at the concrete plant.
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