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City Hall puts cost of "A Season of Progress" report and mailing at $31,444; mayoral challenger Corbett sees report as incumbents using tax dollars to respond to criticism
Mayoral candidate Ron Corbett says it figures. It’s just four months from the November city election, and the City Council — six of the nine members’ seats are on the ballot — is out… more →
Eye on the Island
City Hall puts cost of "A Season of Progress" report and mailing at $31,444; mayoral challenger Corbett sees report as incumbents using tax dollars to respond to criticism
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Rick Smith wrote 5 months ago: Mayoral candidate Ron Corbett says it figures. It’s just four months from the November city el … more →
Corbett not bashful about letting would-be mayoral-race foes know that he's beating bushes for bucks for the coming match
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Rick Smith wrote 7 months ago: This year’s mayoral race looks like it will be richer than the 2005 race in which Kay Halloran, a re … more →
First post-flood victory for new 'affordable' replacement housing: Cedar Pond Townhouses to go up on a part of what had been Chapman Fun World
Rick Smith wrote 8 months ago: Neighbors out along Wilson Avenue SW near Williams Boulevard and Westdale Mall lost out this week on … more →
Mayoral race has one announced candidate, but Gary Hinzman joins Ron Corbett with his own mayoral Web site
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Rick Smith wrote 8 months ago: Cedar Rapids may have just Ron Corbett so far when it comes to candidates who have formally announce … 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 →
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 →
Mayor's speech downtown is a reminder that all is not well there
Rick Smith wrote 9 months ago: A mayor’s annual address on the condition of the city is generally an upbeat affair with a focus on … 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 →
Stealth 'Condition of the City' address has Halloran assuring city is 'open for business;' Fagan says city's flood recovery will be a model for the nation
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Rick Smith wrote 9 months ago: Without prior promotion, Mayor Kay Halloran and Brian Fagan, mayor pro tem, last night gave a Condit … more →
EPRC works to matter; its director, Doug Neumann, tightropes a middle ground with gentle kicks at ‘mayor’s office’ and business leaders who are ‘off track’
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Rick Smith wrote 9 months ago: The day you know what EPRC stands for may not come until the day is closer for the upstart Economic … more →
Mayor Halloran reports: Council's plan for now is a 5-year sales tax; 20% for property-tax relief, 80% for flood relief
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Rick Smith wrote 10 months ago: The Cedar Rapids City Council’s preliminary draft of ballot language for a March 3 local-option sale … more →
Much-fussed-over East Post Road bridge likely to include trail, sidewalk
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Rick Smith wrote 10 months ago: It has been a couple years – years. That’s how long the City Council has gone around and around abou … more →
Mayor Halloran tracking Statehouse voting, says council poised to call a March 3 sales tax vote for 'flood recovery'
Rick Smith wrote 10 months ago: Mayor Kay Halloran on Tuesday evening said the City Council is at the ready to set a vote for March … more →
Living legends might be among those in the hunt for Cedar Rapids mayor
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Rick Smith wrote 10 months ago: It’s not easy getting your name affixed to a public building, especially if you have not given oodle … more →
Council cancels special meetings; members head to Des Moines and DC in search of flood-recovery help
Rick Smith wrote 10 months ago: The City Council had intended to hold one of its “brown-bag” discussions at lunch Tuesday and then t … more →
Who are you for? Anonymous phone survey has 5 on list for mayor: Corbett, Fagan, Hinzman, Olson and Vernon
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Rick Smith wrote 10 months ago: An anonymous phone survey conducted in recent days in Cedar Rapids has been asking a scientific samp … more →
Shey compares Mayor Halloran to Gen. U.S. Grant; small-business group OK with mayor's ‘No' vote
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Rick Smith wrote 1 year ago: Council member Pat Shey drags out the history references with some regularity. And he did again Tues … more →
Mayor Halloran works Mayor Nagin for help in securing Congressional cash
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Rick Smith wrote 1 year ago: Disasters can turn distant mayors into friends. If not allies. In that regard, Mayor Kay Halloran ap … more →
