Ask people what a nun looks like and the picture that probably jumps to mind is a woman in a black habit — and it’s also likely that woman will be white. In part, that’s because black women seeking to enter holy orders in the United States have traditionally been discriminated against, either deliberately or unthinkingly, by the Catholic Church.
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Bringing ‘there’ here: SOKO Outfitters set to open in Cedar Rapids later this year
Last week it was announced a new independent outdoor store, SOKO Outfitters, will be opening in Cedar Rapid later this year, and many people immediately took to social media to explain just what SOKO means.
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Rockwell Collins, which received millions in Iowa taxpayer dollars last year, announces it will move its executive offices to Florida
Rockwell Collins will move its executive management division from Cedar Rapids to Florida as part of the new corporate structure following its planned merger with United Technologies Corp., it was announced on Thursday. The company has been headquartered in Cedar Rapids, since it was founded in 1933 as Collins Radio.
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Students at Cedar Rapids’ Washington High School staged walkout in memory of Florida shooting victims
Students at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids walked out of classes Wednesday morning and gathered around the school’s flagpole for 17 minutes in memory of the 17 people killed last week in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
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Save CR Heritage is celebrating five years of promoting preservation in Cedar Rapids with a tour of restored New Bo buildings
On Saturday, Save CR Heritage will be hosting a tour of historic properties in south end of Cedar Rapids’ New Bohemia District.
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Linn County Attorney answers questions about the wrongful arrest that is costing the county $285,000
On Wednesday, Linn County announced it would pay $285,000 to Joseph McBride to settle a lawsuit alleging the county and County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden violated McBride’s rights by having him arrested and jailed for more than two months for a crime McBride didn’t commit. McBride had been arrested at his Arizona home in October for a home invasion robbery in Cedar Rapids that occurred early on New Year’s Day 2017. McBride was charged with the crime largely on the strength of the victim saying he recognized McBride in a Facebook photo.
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Linn County will pay $285,000 to a man wrongly arrested because of a photo on Facebook
Linn County announced on Wednesday it is paying $285,000 to settle a federal lawsuit against the county and County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden. Joseph McBride had filed the lawsuit earlier this month, claiming that his rights had been violated when Vander Sanden signed an arrest warrant containing false information that led to McBride being arrested and jailed for two months.
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Johnson County and 35 other Iowa counties are suing opioid manufacturers
Johnson County, along with 35 other Iowa counties, is suing five major manufacturers of prescription opioids for what the counties claim are deceptive marketing and sales practices that fueled the current opioid crisis.. “The crisis was precipitated by Defendants who, through nefarious and deceptive means and using one of the biggest pharmaceutical marketing campaigns in history, carefully engineered and continue to support a dramatic shift in the culture of prescribing opioids by falsely portraying both the risks of addiction and abuse and the safety and benefits of long-term use,” according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Des Moines on Jan. 5.
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Man wrongly arrested for robbery because he was Facebook friends with other suspects sues Linn County
On Wednesday, Joseph McBride filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Linn County and Jerry Vander Sanden, the county attorney, violated his rights by having him arrested and jailed last year for a robbery committed in Cedar Rapids in January 2017. McBride spent approximately two months in custody, before all charges against him were dropped.
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Community forum will focus on the impact of proposed Cedar Rapids school closures on neighborhoods
A forum on the Cedar Rapids Community School District’s (CRCSD) plan to close eight elementary schools, and the potential impact of those closing on the city and its neighborhoods, will be held in the Cedar Rapids Public Library’s Whipple Auditorium on Tuesday. “We’re concerned that there are so many people who don’t really know about the plan,” Cindy Hadish of Save CR Heritage told Little Village. “That’s why we’re having this public forum — to raise awareness, and hopefully to get the school board to pay attention.”
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Betas closing its doors in Cedar Rapids’ NewBo District
Just days after posting that the restaurant would reopen from its holiday break on Dec. 28, a post on the Betas Facebook page announced that the Cedar Rapids NewBo staple would be closing its doors for good.
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New art, a new festival, but no casino and (mostly) no fireworks: Ten ways Cedar Rapids changed in 2017
The race for mayor may have dominated much of the news this year in Cedar Rapids, but the changes that happened in the city in 2017 weren’t limited to politics.
