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Posted on Nov 03, 2009 by Rick Smith . Get out your calculators. It may be a bit of a challenge tonight to figure out who wins the two at-large City Council seats in today's election in Cedar Rapids.

Home > Blogs > Mulling it over > What is the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor's brand and message? Blogs , Mulling it over What is the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor's brand and message? Posted on Nov 03, 2009 by Lyle Muller .

Posted on Nov 05, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . For most people, Mike Huckabee says, there is a difference between Election Day and Christmas Day.

Dubuque's business community asked American Eagle representatives for a return of the daily fourth flight that was cut in 2008.

Posted on Nov 05, 2009 by Rick Smith . Federal dollars that will pay the bulk of the cost to buy out some 1,300 flood-damaged properties in Cedar Rapids is closer to being available to the city.

New ideas to reshape and rebuild downtown Cedar Rapids after the flood are re-emerging. But some council members aren't happy with those ideas.

Posted on Nov 02, 2009 by Spencer Willems . Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot spoke Friday in Iowa City with former patient Garret Frey.

Posted on Nov 04, 2009 by Admin . This photo shows victim Renee A. Zeman and her daughter, Carol Becker, shortly before Zeman's death.

Officials in Muscatine County have taken a 51-year-old Mechanicsville woman into custody on charges that she attempted to extort funds from a conservative anti-tax group.

The indie comedy "Cedar Rapids" has a few more new residents. Plus, "300's" warrior-leader will jump in time as a Sheakespearean warrior-leader. Sigourney Weaver and Alia Shawkat have signed on for the increasingly star-studded "Cedar Rapids," according to Variety .

Posted on Nov 03, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . Christopher Reed will formally announce his plans to seek the GOP nomination for the U.S. House from Iowa's 2nd District at 3:30 p.m., Nov.

Dan Lees of Cedar Rapids, head of the duck exhibit at the Bever Park Zoo, wrangles ducks into their overnight pens in August 2008.

Posted on Nov 03, 2009 by Steve Gravelle . Tim Reynolds Timothy Reynolds was formally charged Tuesday with attempted murder and willful injury causing serious injury in Sunday night's shooting in southeast Cedar Rapids.

Posted on Nov 01, 2009 by John McGlothlen . "Conspiracy in the Heartland: A Greed Story" they say would make an expose' that could fill books and supply a mini-series.A Conspiracy theories abound about the delay of buyout and rehab monies being deliberate efforts to further certain financial agendas.

A Hiawatha man has been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting that left another man with life-threatening injuries.

Posted on Nov 02, 2009 by Cindy Hadish . A public clinic will be offered Friday in Cedar Rapids for H1N1 vaccine, but only for people in priority groups and only the nasal vaccine will be available.

Steve Rathje, candidate for the US House of Representatives Rathje for Congress, IA CD-2 We're seeing it in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races and the battle for Congressional District 23 in New York.

Cedar Rapids Police are investigating a shooting on the city's southeast side. Officers were called to 1400 block of Fourth Avenue Southeast around 8:30 Sunday night for the report of a gunshot.

Water gushes into a downtown bar and floods the building, again. A maintenance worker discovered Cedar Rapids' Piano Lounge was filling up with water when entered the building Sunday afternoon.

Posted on Nov 01, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . President Barack Obama To mark the first anniversary of Barack Obama's election to the presidency, the Cedar Rapids premiere party for "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama," will be from 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at CSPS, 1103 3rd St.