Cedar Rapids Downtown Market Moves for Summer Saturdays
The Cedar Rapids farmers market relocates downtown for four Saturdays this summer and restaurants may offer cafe style outdoor service, signaling a green, active downtown initiative. Local high school girls basketball teams reach state tournament with several matchups ahead as Solon Tipton and Postville play first rounds. Grant Wood's American Gothic travels to the Smithsonian while Chicago loans the painting for a Wood exhibit. Educators helped shape new high school eligibility standards prioritizing semester grades over midsemester marks.
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Iowa City
Des Moines
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Xavier High
Linn-Mar
Jefferson, Prairie
Washington
Grant Wood
Smithsonian Gallery
Smithsonian
Art Institute of Chicago
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Embracing diversity cited as reason for H-1B visa use
A Center for Immigration Studies report challenges the idea that H-1B workers fill skill gaps and notes they earn about 13 000 less than American workers in similar computer occupations. The writer argues for limits on guest workers and warns of eminent domain abuses in Iowa. Doug Weiland Mechanicsville says complacency must end.
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Center For Immigration Studies
U.S
Bush
Iowa
Muscatine County
Coralville
Doug Weiland
Mechanicsville
Legislation urged to track sex offenders in Iowa
Myrna Loehrlein of Cedar Rapids presses Iowa lawmakers to reform sex offender laws. She calls for a differentiated registry, tighter tracking of dangerous offenders, expanded treatment funding, and quicker, firmer action to protect children while supporting reintegration for those successfully treated.
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Iowa
Myrna Loehrlein
Cedar Rapids
Adult abuse case urged to protect minors
Elizabeth McConaughy of Iowa City urges stronger protection for minors after a Sioux Center man was found not guilty of sex abuse. She argues adults must resist inappropriate contact and keep youths safe, noting legal drinking age is 21 and minors face future consequences from risky behavior.
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Sioux Center
Momma
Elizabeth McConaughy
Iowa City
Funerals Teach Us About Life and Gratitude
A reflection on attending multiple funerals across faiths showing how rituals aid memory and mourning. The piece notes presence with grieving families, testimonies of lives lived, and the unseen ways someone’s death reshapes the living and community.
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Baptist
Lou Gehrig
Abd-El- Kader
Essie Smith
Hans Frick
Eminent domain and private property in the New London case
The text recalls the Declaration of Independence and the debate over private property rights, citing the Kelp family’s displacement in New London. It notes Justice Stevens’s rationale equating public benefit with public use and warns of government takings for private developers and rising local costs.
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Thomas Jefferson
City of New London
Supreme Court
John Stevens
Suzette Kelp
New London
Conn
Housing agency in peril shocks Cedar Rapids leaders
An Eastern Iowa housing agency, MidAmerican Housing Partnership, faces financial peril after a 2004 audit found serious fund-management mistakes. Its Cedar Rapids board features banking political and business leaders who say they were surprised and unsure how it happened.
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Iowa
MidAmerican Housing Partnership
Cedar Rapids
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