PCI Medical Pavilion expansion fuels Cedar Rapids debate
The Gazette notes PCI Medical Pavilion adds a third floor for community education, calls it a penthouse term, and chronicles the roller coaster of street closure and public perception. Despite controversy, PCI advances a Tax Increment Financing package and a hopeful future for downtown Cedar Rapids and local patients.
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Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa
Mike Sundall
PCI Medical
Medical Mall
PCI
Sundall
Medical
Medical District
Second Avenue SE
Sandall
Hiawatha
Cedar Rapids
Ellis Park faces Time Check relocation plan in Cedar Rapids
Local residents express strong opposition to moving the Time Check Recreation Center into Ellis Park near the tennis courts citing reduced park charm and smaller initial funding from FEMA. They urge keeping parks intact and question city priorities amid housing debates and river land proposals.
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Powers That Be
Time Check Recreation Center
Ellis Park
Federal Emergency Management Agency
People For Parks
Morgan Creek Park
Aggie Doyle
Cedar Rapids
Beatles tribute show becomes nostalgia for middle age
A Broadway style show billed as a Beatles tribute plays to an older audience. Four mop-wigged performers echo the Fab Four while the viewers reflect on aging, memory, and the enduring pull of classic songs like I Want to Hold Your Hand and Let It Be. The writer notes the performers mimic the group’s accents, the audience’s shift to grownups, and the lasting joy of the music despite time marching on.
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Dave Draheim
Ron Corbett
Kay Halloran
Brian Fagan
Corbett
Ain
Memory Lane
Beatles
Frontal lobe delays and college crime echo in Iowa grads
Erin Jordan reports that more than one in ten University of Iowa graduates leave with a diploma and a rap sheet, mostly alcohol related offenses. The piece notes a 18 19 and 20 year olds provision to wipe first time offenses after two years good behavior, yet employers still pass on many graduates.
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Carl Bell
Institute For Juvenile Research
Bell
University of Ilinois
Erin Jordan
University of Iowa
Iowa
Jordan
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