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Government

Architect's rendering, exterior of new Cedar Rapids Convention Complex
Rick Smith

 CEDAR RAPIDS — Easy to miss Wednesday in Mayor Ron Corbett’s State of the City updates on $300 million in city flood-recovery building ...

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Public Safety

The Cedar Rapids Police Department's mobile speed camera was parked along 16th Avenue SW on Jan. 4, 2012. (Jeff Raasch/The Gazette)
Jeff Raasch

At least one person hadn't heard about the Cedar Rapids police department's famous red Jeep.She knows about it now, though.The vehicle, which is equipped ...

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Education

Malcom Price Laboratory School in Cedar Falls (Photo courtesy of the WCF Courier)
Diane Heldt

 CEDAR FALLS — Closing the Malcolm Price Lab School at the University of Northern Iowa would save the university up to $2 million ...

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Flood Recovery

Architect's rendering, exterior of new Cedar Rapids Convention Complex
Rick Smith

 CEDAR RAPIDS — Easy to miss Wednesday in Mayor Ron Corbett’s State of the City updates on $300 million in city flood-recovery building ...

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Video

Seven-year-old Garnett Popst is dressed like President Obama as reads through a speach on jobs before delivering the speech to a TV camera in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, October 25, 2011. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
James Q. Lynch

CEDAR RAPIDS — It’s a question that faces every former president: What next?Seven-year-old Garnett Propst still fits into his charcoal business suit, so ...

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