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It’s part of the City Charter, the Mayor gives a State of the City speech by February 28th each year. A tradition has been for the League of Women Voters to host a luncheon for this event. Mayor Corbett had a pleasant speech for his guests on Wednesday during the $30 luncheon.  Seats were available [...]

Evidently, I am not alone in thinking that the City Council adding $540,000 into the City’s budget on Kim Brokaw’s yardy device to “protect” us is ridiculous.  Many, many Cedar Rapidians have spoken up on the subject.  Note: This has been added into the budget but the budget has not yet been approved.  However, this [...]

I was able to listen to the Podcast of the Bob Bruce Radio Show on WMTradio.com early Sunday morning.  You can find it here.  Bob talks about the latest hot topic in Cedar Rapids, the Yardy and the safety device that has been pitched to the City Council and has been added to the City [...]

First and foremost I must admit, I love my Yardy.  My Yardy has been a faithful companion in working with me, keeping my yard clean.  I’ve been able to deposit all of the broken branches and leaves from my neighbors trees, that fall into my yard uninvited, and Yardy has accepted them just as though [...]

Rick Smith with The Gazette is reporting on his blog, http://bit.ly/b8ah9a, the City Council will be voting this evening as to whether or not they will be buying anti-tipping devices for our Yardys.  Inventor, Kim Brokaw, wants to sell the City 54,000 of the devices at $6, the City will spend an additional $2 for [...]

I’ve been listening to the interviews by the CR City Council for the Long-Range Planning Commission.  There’s one question that keeps popping up and it’s their wanting to know if the applicants are from Cedar Rapids or not.  What the heck difference does that make?  Maybe none.  It’ll be interesting to see when the list [...]

Three contributors to feministing.com — Vanessa Valenti, Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Miriam Perez — will be speaking next month in Iowa City. The event, “A Conversation with the Editors of Feministing.com,” is part of an annual observance by the Women’s Resource and Action Center at the University of Iowa of International Women’s Month. The trio will [...]

Thursday, February 18 Candidate for Governor, Bob Vander Plaats will be at the Pizza Ranch, 1005 Linden Drive, Marion, from Noon to 1:30 PM to talk about his bid to unseat Governor Chet Culver and outline his priorities for the State. Friday, February 19 Candidate for Iowa Attorney General, Brenna Findley will be at a [...]

To celebrate Presidents Day I selected several old Reader’s Digests to browse for articles on Presidents.  With President Obama just completing his first year as Commander in Chief I found an article I thought appropriate. The following is not the complete article. Reader’s Digest, 1962. pp 53-54 Condensed from Time (January 5, ’62) The Testing [...]

It’s difficult to know exactly where Shane Goodman, editor of CityView, stands based on a quick read of his latest editorial. On one hand, he seems to think there are too many women staffing news desks around the land, and that their very presence is leading to him being force-fed soft news stories on throw [...]