Tag: Linn County
FEMA Disaster Recovery Center set to close Saturday
FEMA Disaster Recovery Center, Cedar Rapids CREDIT: KCRG-TV9
By CBJ News Staff
news@corridorbusiness.com
The FEMA Disaster Recovery Center set up in Linn County to provide assistance in the...
A Duane Arnold Energy Center eulogy
CBJ Editorial
When a prominent business or community leader dies or retires in ordinary times, there is a funeral or reception to honor them. But...
Brucemore and Feed Iowa First begin produce partnership
By CBJ News Staff
news@corridorbusiness.com
Brucemore and Feed Iowa First, two non-profit organizations in Cedar Rapids, have announced a partnership to provide fresh produce to help...
Closing DAEC won’t help climate change
CBJ Editorial
It has been interesting to note the increasing number of elected officials and governing bodies becoming woke to climate change.
Last year saw major...
Act locally on environmental challenges
CBJ Editorial
There are significant environmental challenges facing our state, nation and world. They include a changing climate, unclean water and a recent report on...
Stacey Walker
Supervisor
Linn County
AGE: 30
Best advice you ever received?
I’ve been told a variation of this by several people: “Know yourself, and be yourself in this world...
Solarize Johnson County sparks residential interest
Workers install solar panels on a home roof in an undated photo. CREDIT PEC
By Katharine Carlon
katharine@corridorbusiness.com
When Mirna Garza and Nancy Williams became neighbors about...
Working for a Living: The minimum wage fight continues
Protesters hold a mini-protest at the Iowa Statehouse calling for a $15 minimum wage during Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Condition of the State address on...
New CBJ series: Working for a living
Culver’s crew member Myson Rodgers rings up a sale at the chain’s Edgewood Road location in Cedar Rapids. In an effort to retain workers...
Linn County minimum wage: Is it settled?
By Dave DeWitte
dave@Corridorbusiness.com
Linn County will become the second county in Iowa to boost the minimum wage on Jan. 1.
The county’s Board of Supervisors cast...