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City Hall confident on buyout money; but when it arrives, the legal hurdles will take a few to many months to jump, city reminds people
News elsewhere in Iowa of small-sized buyouts of flood-damaged homes does not mean that the first round of buyouts in Cedar Rapids using funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency is not on tr… more →
Eye on the Island
City Hall confident on buyout money; but when it arrives, the legal hurdles will take a few to many months to jump, city reminds people
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Rick Smith wrote 5 months ago: News elsewhere in Iowa of small-sized buyouts of flood-damaged homes does not mean that the first ro … more →
Flood victims in newly purchased homes may not lose their down-payment assistance after all; city looks at using local-option sales tax revenue to help
Rick Smith wrote 5 months ago: City Hall is investigating the possibility of providing targeted help to flood victims who received … more →
Grass-roots group that engineered local-option sales tax triumph donates $24,183 in excess campaign funds to Habitat for Humanity
Rick Smith wrote 6 months ago: Vote Yes for Our Neighbors, the Cedar Rapids grass-roots effort that successfully campaigned to secu … more →
IC supports fire station, looks at franchise fees
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ghennigan wrote 6 months ago: By Gregg Hennigan IOWA CITY - The City Council tonight once again pledged support for a long-discuss … more →
Council to discuss fire station, franchise fees
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ghennigan wrote 6 months ago: By Gregg Hennigan IOWA CITY – The long-discussed, long-delayed fourth fire station and new fra … more →
No Local Sales Tax On Small Purchase?
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ctrappe wrote 8 months ago: CEDAR RAPIDS – Overheard at a Cedar Rapids gas station: “Why is the 1-percent sales tax … more →
From 71 applicants, nine are chosen: City Council names Local-Option Sales Tax Oversight Committee
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Rick Smith wrote 8 months ago: The City Council on Monday named the nine members of the city’s Local-Option Sales Tax Oversight Com … more →
Twenty finalists now become 24 for nine-member Local-Option Sales Tax Oversight Committee; neighborhood assn. v.p. drops out
Rick Smith wrote 8 months ago: The City Council pared the list of 71 applicants for the nine-member Local-Option Sales Tax Oversigh … more →
Sullivan on the sales tax
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adambelz wrote 9 months ago: In his weekly salvo, Johnson County Supervisor Rod Sullivan nicely summarizes the sales tax issue in … more →
Is passage of a local-option sales tax proof that government can work?
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Rick Smith wrote 9 months ago: Listen to citizens who come to council meetings, listen to the news, listen to those outside of loca … more →
City Hall kindness has not always been easy to find for neighboring jurisdictions that dump on sales tax
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Rick Smith wrote 9 months ago: City Hall kindness is new found when it comes to jurisdictions whose voters dump on local-option tax … more →
Seventy apply for nine slots on Oversight Committee to help City Council spend $90-plus million in sales tax funds
Rick Smith wrote 9 months ago: Seventy residents have applied to sit on City Hall’s nine-member Local-Option Sales Tax Oversight Co … more →
City of Cedar Rapids apt to see more than $1 million more a year in revenue from local-option sales tax
Rick Smith wrote 9 months ago: The city of Cedar Rapids could see more than $1 million more a year from the local-option sales tax … more →
Round 2: Marion, Hiawatha, Robins, Center Point dust themselves off
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adambelz wrote 9 months ago: The Marion City Council will discuss tonight whether to put a local-option sales tax back on the bal … more →
Obama's troops back in C.R.
adambelz wrote 9 months ago: Michael Halle, Derek Eadon, Scott McLean and Dan Martin all came to Cedar Rapids in 2007 to work on … more →
LOST Thoughts
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tdorman wrote 9 months ago: Cedar Rapids voters, those who bothered to show at the polls, sent some pretty clear messages tonigh … more →
Mayor and five possible mayoral candidates have one thing in common: All support the local-option sales tax
Rick Smith wrote 9 months ago: There have been local-option sales tax elections in years past in which elected officials and would- … more →
Halloran and Fagan bring Condition of the City speech downtown; city needs sales tax, they say; Alliant exec has few hopes for downtown steam
Rick Smith wrote 9 months ago: Mayor Kay Halloran and Brian Fagan, mayor pro tem, told an audience of about 300 at Friday’s Conditi … more →
"Vote Yes" rakes in dough, "Tea Party" no
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adambelz wrote 9 months ago: Supporters of the local-option sales tax have raised $43,850 in their campaign to win a “yes … more →
