- History isn't always found in the front-page news
I have history on my wall. In the ultimate case of self-gratification, I collect newspapers, frame them, and hang them around my apartment.
- Construction federal courthouse to start in spring
After more than 10 years of planning and delays, construction is finally scheduled to start on a new federal courthouse in downtown Cedar Rapids.
- Cedar Rapids shelters reopen
With little fanfare, three Cedar Rapids shelters for the homeless have reopened after repairing damage from the summer's flood.
- Cedar Rapids church returns with Dixie march
Liz Martin/The GazetteSanDee Skelton of Cedar Rapids leads a group of about 50 musicians and singers, all members of St.
- Agents arrest former Agriprocessors manager
A former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse raided by federal immigration agents in May was arrested Thursday morning.
- Iowa meatpacker fined nearly $10M for violations
Iowa on Wednesday fined a kosher meatpacking plant that was targeted by a federal immigration raid nearly $10 million for alleged violations of state labor laws.
- Cedar Rapids levee proposals spur questions
The city held its third and final open house Thursday to gather input from the public on future flood protection along the Cedar River.
- Final Flood Protection Open House Draws Hundreds
Cedar Rapids residents got one more chance on Thursday to influence the city's billion dollar flood plan.
- Quaker's flood problems not part of PepsiCo's woes
PepsiCo plans to cut 3,300 jobs companywide due to sales weakness that led to a 9.5 percent drop in third quarter profits.
- Special Flood Fund Money Getting to Area Non-Profits
Nearly $1-million dollars in money contributed to a Flood 2008 Fund is already in the hands of 14 Cedar Rapids-area non-profits. And there's much more to come.
- Quaker Oats working to avoid repeat of flood
Four months after floodwaters shut down its largest manufacturing plant, Quaker Foods and Beverages is taking steps to make sure it doesn't happen again.
- Cedar Rapids Officials Discuss Flood Management Strategy
Cedar Rapids city officials met Wednesday morning to explain their plan to prevent a future flood.
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Attempts to lure younger workers and families to Cedar Rapids could suffer for several months, if not years, because of June's massive floods, business and civic leaders here say.
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- Mysty's storm story
I live in Cedar Rapids, only a couple blocks from the Cedar River, which runs fairly straight through the center of town splitting it east and west.
- First Mass since flood celebrated at St. Wenceslaus
Pat Beer worked to fight back tears as she talked about returning to St. Wenceslaus Church in Cedar Rapids on Sunday.
- Norwood Souvenir to end 100-year-old Cedar Rapids operation
Norwood Souvenir informed employees Friday morning that it will end its 100-year-old Cedar Rapids operation instead of rebuilding from June's floods.
- C.R. chamber names interim CEO
Robert Buntz Jr. has been named interim chief executive officer of the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce.
- Homeowners discover trees didn't escape flood's wrath
Some of Jan Holten's greatest flood losses didn't come from inside her home. Damage to her once tidy house in the Time Check neighborhood was estimated at more than $50,000, but the 68-year-old Cedar Rapids ...
