Cedar Rapids Eyes Multimillion Vision Iowa Grant
Cedar Rapids negotiators and the Vision Iowa Board near a framework for a Cedar Bend redevelopment grant south of downtown. The city expects an award at the Des Moines meeting on Oct 13, likely under 7.75 million from a 225 million pool, with final numbers to be worked out.
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Cedar Bend project details outlined for three main components
The Cedar Bend plan totals 34 million dollars and includes Sinclair Square a community center and farmers market costing 13.72 million Cedar Bend Park built on a landfill site downriver from Czech Village costing 16.9 million and Cedar Bend Lake with a beach lodge shelters and fishing boating amenities costing 3.6 million.
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Jefferson High Homecoming Crowd Sees Social Scene
Jefferson High School students at Cedar Rapids attend the homecoming football game against Dubuque Hempstead not for the play but for the social gathering on the bleachers. Teens like Brittny Smutz and friends say the event is a break from class, a chance to mingle, with campus life dominating the evening.
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Jefferson High School
Cedar Rapids
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Rachel Edwards
Smutz
Jefferson
Dubuque Hempstead
Kara Sebetka
Jim Slosiarek
Blue Luke Beschta
Alex Hale
Kelsey
Kingston Stadium
Privately Built Rocket Completes First Stage Toward $10 Million Prize
In Mojave California SpaceShipOne defied an abort warning and performed a wild corkscrew ascent reaching 64 miles altitude. Pilot Michael Melvill continued to space as Burt Rutan’s team analyzes why engine shutdown was not followed.
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Iowa experts say forums could decide 2004 presidential outcome
Iowa political scientists say the first of three debates between Bush and Kerry could shape the race. They call the 90 minute forum a high stakes, high audience event with Kerry needing to close or pass Bush. The article lists venues and moderators for the 2004 debates.
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Gazette
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John Kerry
Iowa
Kerry
Massachusetts
Steffan Schmidt
Iowa State University
Health alarms as resistant staph infections rise nationwide
Health experts warn that flesh-eating bacteria, fatal pneumonia, and life-threatening heart infections are appearing in healthy people across the country. The culprits are super bug strains of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to penicillin and initial antibiotics, signaling a troubling shift in staph infections.
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