Agency lowers funding plan for flood damaged plant
Cedar Rapids faces a shortfall over 50 million after FEMA re evaluated flood damage at the Water Pollution Control Facility. Mayor Ron Corbett says the ruling undermines 16 million spent on early repairs and debris removal costs totaling 21 million with only 5 million reimbursed. He led a delegation to Washington to press FEMA chief Craig Fugate.
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Cedar Rapids
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Ron Corbett
FEMA
Corbett
Sinclair
Washington
Craig Fugate
FEMA De-obligates 50 Million for Cedar Rapids Wastewater Repairs
FEMA regional official Barb Sturner confirms de obligating 50 million in disaster payments for Cedar Rapids wastewater plant projects after review. Mayor and city recovery director note funds reallocated due to ineligible expenditures. notification issued Wednesday.
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Barb Sturner
FEMA
Kansas City
Bertram Rd
Sturner
Joe O’hern
Nassif Donor Named Cedar Rapids Cancer Center
Helen G Nassif donors name to grace the new Helen G Nassif Community Cancer Center of Iowa in Cedar Rapids. A $4 million gift will fund construction and equipment for a 9 000 square foot facility at the Physicians Clinic of Iowa Medical Pavilion scheduled to open January 2013.
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Cindy Hadish
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Maryland
Helen Nassif
Community Cancer Center
Ted Townsend
St. Luke’s Hospital
Linn County
Helen G. Nassif
Helen G. Nassif Community Cancer Center of
Iowa
Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa
10Th Street
Second Avenue SE
Townsend
PCI
Cedar
Coralville approves Von Maur deal in private session
Coralville Council moved to approve a multimillion-dollar Von Maur agreement totaling 9.5 million dollars after a private session with no public hearing. Officials cited state real estate provisions but an open-government advocate said the process violated the spirit of open meetings and denied public input.
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Ly Gregg Hennigan
The
Gazette
Oralville
Coralville
von. Maur
Iowa
Kathleen
Richardson
Information City
Remembering the 1991 Iowa City Van Allen Hall shooting
In 1991 Gang Lu killed five, wounded three at the University of Iowa's Van Allen Hall. Mary Hall Rena recalls the day while a plaque honors the victims and Lu, a former associate professor, shot himself after targeting faculty and a student who had won the prize Lu coveted.
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Iowa City
van Allen Hall
Mary Hall Rena
Reno
University of Iowa
Gang Lu
Dwight Nicholson
Christoph Goertz
Robert Smith
Linhua Shan
Shan
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