CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — After dozens of people attended the Cedar Rapids City Council meeting on Tuesday to protest the city giving a fence permit to the Department of Homeland Security, city officials on Wednesday said they are correcting a mapping “anomaly” to no longer require that permit. The immigrant advocacy group, Escucha Mi Voz […]
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Supporters rally in Cedar Rapids for “go
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Chanting “bring Pascual home,” more than 100 people gathered outside of the Cedar Rapids U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in support of Pascual Pedro, a former Iowa high school soccer star recently deported to Guatemala. Alejandra Escobar, community organizer with Eschucha Mi Voz, a faith-based, immigrant-led nonprofit that helped organize […]
How to (hopefully) save a frozen rain ba...
(UPDATE: Nov. 30, 2021) Since this de-icer experiment, the rain barrels have successfully captured rain water in subsequent years, and lesson learned to empty them before ice forms. This fall, they were perhaps emptied too soon, as Iowa is predicted to experience 50-degree temperatures, even into December. A week or so before Thanksgiving every year, […]
Man thrown from high-speed snowmobile; t...
Even in the dead of winter, people are enjoying the outdoors in Iowa, but the following accident reports this weekend from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources point to the need to be careful, especially around ice: CLEAR LAKE – A Minnesota man was injured Saturday during a snowmobile event at Clear Lake. Tyler Hall, […]
Clearing snow and other perfectly legiti...
“Farmer Dave” Miller describes the “proper” use of a flamethrower in various seasons… My wife, Mickey, has indicated that she often cringes when I include her in my farmers’ market email misadventures and tales of woe.