Housing setback prompts call for new Cedar Rapids housing champions
The Cedar Rapids City Council refused to rezone land along Edgewood Road for a 45 unit mixed income complex that would house five homeless households and fund 90 of the project with an 8 million grant. The Gazette editorial urges reactivating the Affordable Housing Commission and expanding policy tools to curb housing insecurity and discrimination.
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Cedar Rapids
Edgewood Road
Crestwood Ridge
Ron Corbett
Justin Shields
Scott Olson
Corbett
Shields
Affordable Housing Commission
Ward voting urged for Marion City Council seats
Kathy Greene of Marion urges voters to approve ward-based elections for Marion City Council, arguing the system mirrors Cedar Rapids and federal elections and would improve representation. She appeals to residents to vote yes on the ward voting question.
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Marion
Board of Supervisors
U.S. House of Representatives
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
U.S
Kathy Greene
Vote for Gadelha and Hinson on Nov 8
Linn County residents are urged to back two women candidates Ashley Hinson for Iowa House District 67 and Rene Gadelha for Iowa Senate 34. The volunteers emphasize education funding, Medicaid oversight, mental health, and job opportunities to keep Iowa’s youth local.
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Linn County
Ashley Hinson
Iowa
Rene Gadelha
Iowa Senate
Hinson
Gadelha
Linn-Mar
Williams blasts college grade inflation and public ignorance
Walter Williams argues that American college students are uninformed and ill-prepared. He cites surveys on geographic literacy and math skills, notes low ACT readiness among graduates, and critiques admissions and curricula while endorsing traditional liberal learning.
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Bernie Sanders
Williams
National Geographic and
Roper Public Affairs
New York
Ohio
U.S
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Middle East
Iran
Israel
Philadelphia
American Institutes For Research
Just Facts
Pentagon
United States
Emory University
Mark Bauerlein
Thucydides
Seneca
Ovid
Ward Voting in Marion Ballot Proposal Stirs Debate
A Marion ballot measure would elect ward council members only by residents of each ward while mayor and At-large members stay citywide. Duct tape over Reaching Higher signs highlights trademark concerns and a broader fight between pro growth and anti debt factions in Marion.
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Willis Cady
Corbett
Shields
Cedar Rapids Community
Brad Buck
Mari- Ax
Marion
Des Moines
Ward
Charles Knudsen
City Hall
White House
Lincoln Motor Co
Michigan State
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Todd Dorman
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