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Cedar Rapids News
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Early voting starts for the June primary
Early voting for the June 5 primary started on Monday, just 29 days before election day. Early voting in Iowa used to start 40 days before an election, but the early voting period was trimmed by the Iowa legislature as part of the new restrictions on voting it passed last year. “That absentee window has […]
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Iowa Supreme Court rules DOT can’t ban traffic cameras
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) does not have the authority to regulate traffic cameras. It was a 6-0 decision in favor of the cities of Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and Muscatine, who sued IDOT after the agency ordered automated traffic cameras removed from interstates in Iowa […]
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Linn-Mar students join National School Walkout ‘to let our elected leaders know that we want to see change’
Students at Linn-Mar High School will be participating in the National School Walkout on Friday, April 20. The nationwide event is being held on the anniversary of the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.
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Younkers is closing its last two area stores
The stores in Coralville’s Coral Ridge Mall and Lindale Mall in Cedar Rapids are among seven Younkers stores that the department store’s parent company, Bon Ton, Inc., told Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) it plans to close.
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The last Sears in the area is closing
On Thursday, Sears announced it will close its store at Lindale Mall in Cedar Rapids. That store is the last Sears in the entire Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area.
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‘It doesn’t seem right’: Cedar Rapids residents protest the subsidized demolition of historic buildings
Normally, when supporters of historic preservation hold a demonstration, it’s to try to save a threatened property. But it’s too late for the Bever building, a fixture in downtown Cedar Rapids since 1923.
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CBS 2 and Fox 28 featured in viral video of local news anchors reciting pro-Trump talking points
Local TV news anchors Jeneé Ryan and Mitch Fick appear in a video that has gone viral, but neither one is likely to be happy about it.
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‘The Emperor and the Peasant’: a new perspective on WWI at the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
As the 100th anniversary of the First World War has unfolded since 2014, the most common images of the “War to End All Wars” have come from the Western Front. Trench warfare. Armies fighting endlessly over the same few squares miles of land. But the fighting on the Eastern Front was very different, with dramatic advances and retreats, and two empires — Austria-Hungary and Russia — slowly collapsing.
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Cedar Rapids Fire Department investigating fire at the Planned Parenthood Health Center
The Cedar Rapids Fire Department responded to a car engulfed in flames in the parking lot of Planned Parenthood Health Center at 3 a.m. on Friday morning.
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Cedar Rapids seizing income tax returns for nonpayment of traffic camera tickets
Cedar Rapids has begun seizing the state tax refunds of people with unpaid tickets from the city’s traffic cameras. In Sept., the city council voted to send unpaid traffic camera fines to the Iowa Department of Administrative Service’s offset program.
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Report: CBS 2, Fox 28 and other Sinclair stations will broadcast news promos echoing Trump talking points
Sinclair Broadcasting Group television stations, including KGAN (CBS 2) and KXFA (Fox 28), will be running promotional spots for their news broadcasts later this money that denounce other networks for reporting “fake news,” CNN reported on Tuesday.
