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Cedar Rapids hates its citizens
From Radio Iowa: The grace period for drivers caught on camera running a red light in Cedar Rapids ended Sunday, and they will now be looking at a fine of up to $100. Cedar Rapids police spokesperson,...
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Gratitude
The Cedar Rapids city council has been meeting in the council chambers of suburban Hiawatha, Iowa, since their own meeting room was ruined in the 2008 floods. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports how this...
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Cedar Rapids: taxing its residents and passerby to subsidize the privileged
When the floodwaters receded from Cedar Rapids, they seem to have left a creepy power-grabbing residue. Brian Gongol reports: Interstate 380 now has speed cameras mounted along the freeway as it passes...
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Catastrophe in Cedar Rapids!
From the reaction of politicians, you’d think the rejection of a sales tax boost billed as a “flood relief” measure in Linn County was worse news than the flood itself. From The Des Moines Register: “I...
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And we’d have gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for those darned voters
It’s one of my very favorite recurring election stories. All of the right people — the Responsible Politicians, the Civic Leaders, the Chamber of Commerce, the big newspaper — they all decide that what...
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