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It is a sad day in the feminist and civil rights communities. Dorothy Height, who served four decades as the president of the National Council of Negro Women, died at the age of 98. From the Los Angeles Times: …Height, who also played a key role in integrating the YWCA, died Tuesday of natural causes [...]

Earlier this year the Cedar Rapids City Council lobbied the Iowa Legislature to take away our right to vote on local bond referendums.  Unfortunately for us, they were successful. Hi, this is Ron Corbett. Sometimes politicians find voter approval of bond referendums to be a nuisance, that’s too bad.  Voters deserve a say when it [...]

Cedar Rapids Gazette’s Rick Smith brought to light a public hearing scheduled April 13th. Public input, a discussion, then a vote.  $17,000,000.00 on the line. Rick tells of the official notice for the hearing. It includes the possibility of  a reverse-referendum. The decision to buy bonds would be subject to a special election if 10% [...]

Tonight at the Cedar Rapids City Council meeting I met a young African-American woman.  She was there to tell her story about the flood.  She was timid and wasn’t sure she would be able to read it.  I told her I would read it for her.  This is what she wrote: “On June 11th 2008 [...]

I had a short facebook discussion this week with Brent Oleson, author of The Marion Contrarian blog and member of the Linn County Supervisors. I initiated the discussion after I read a post by Brent and took exception to his use of the phrase “prima donna” in a post that was critical of a certain [...]