Title: Flood Recovery Committee Meeting Location: City Hall North, North Conference Room Start Time: 5/25/2012 11:00 AM End Time: 5/25/2012 12:30 PM Description: To...
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Title: Flood Recovery Committee Meeting Location: City Hall North, North Conference Room Start Time: 5/25/2012 11:00 AM End Time: 5/25/2012 12:30 PM Description: To enable the City Council to discuss and evaluate in greater detail these specific issues that directly impact the flood recovery and reinvestment efforts of the City of Cedar Rapids. EventType:...
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CEDAR RAPIDS — It’s Wellington Heights’ turn — especially for the children who live there. This old core neighborhood in southeast Cedar Rapids has combated a perception problem for more than 15 years as being a place where bad behavior surfaces and police cars converge, this in a city that nearly always can count...
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Sen. Chuck Grassley isn’t alarmed by “what some might call upheavals” in Republican politics in Indiana, Nebraska and Iowa. He sees the recent victories by Tea Party-backed candidates in GOP Senate primaries in Indiana and Nebraska as well as the success of Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul supporters in Iowa in electing a majority...
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Date: 5/15/2012 Contact: Craig Hanson, (319) 286-5802 Body: On Thursday and Friday, May 17 and 18, 2012, 10th Street SE between 1st Avenue and 3rd Avenue in the northbound direction toward 1st Avenue will be closed for a water pipe installation. Traffic should detour on 8th St SE. For a complete list of...
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Date: 5/15/2012 Contact: Craig Hanson, (319) 286-5802 Body: Starting Thursday, May 17, 2012, at approximately 8:30 a.m., the 8th Avenue Bridge over the Cedar River will be closed for approximately two (2) weeks for replacement of a sanitary sewer line and reconstruction of the 8th Avenue and 2nd Street SE intersection. Traffic should use...
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The Republican Party of Iowa caught heat from news organizations for reneging on its own plan for releasing certified presidential precinct caucus results by giving them to the Des Moines Register before any other media outlets. One of the party’s critics at a public hearing hosted by the GOP in Des Moines May 15...
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Date: 5/15/2012 Contact: Megan Murphy 319-286-5162 Body: The Spring Large Item Drop-off Event held on Saturday May 12, was a huge success. Almost 1,000 people participated in the event, but the wait time for drivers did not exceed 20 minutes. While accurate numbers are not available for all the material collected on Saturday, here...
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Date: 5/15/2012 Contact: Sgt. Cristy Hamblin (319) 286-5439 Body: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – Date – The Division of Criminal Investigation is continuing their investigation into the Public Intoxication Arrest of Paul Saldivar, 4/26/79, 1036 11 St NE. The name is being released at this time and he is still hospitalized. Only the name will...
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Title: Building Services Mech Appeals Board – MEETING CANCELLED Location: Public Works Bldg, Building Services Conf Room, 1201 6th St SW Start Time: 5/16/2012 2:00 PM End Time: 5/16/2012 3:00 PM Description: Discuss board term lengths. EventType: City Board or Commission Meeting Source
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CHANGE IN LOCATION Mitt Romney will deliver what’s being billed as a major policy address May 15 in Des Moines on the “out-of-control spending and debt” under the Obama administration, according to Iowa U.S. Rep. Steve King. Romney, who is hitting back on a new round of attack ads by President Obama’s re-election campaign,...
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