Coralvilles big debt and what to do about it will be a big topic at Tonights City Council meeting. On december 9th, Moodys Investors Service downgraded the citys bond rating. Tts generally seen ap a negative reflection of the cityty financnc and can make it harder for coralville to borrow money. The bond rating dropped to the lowest rating of Investment Grade on moodys scale. The company rated coralville this way becauau of its high debtbtnd liabilities. Liabilities include things like ownership of a hotel and performance center. Coralville has about 267million dollars in debt. In iowa, ly cedar raraids and des moines both much larger cities have more debt. Coralville city Officials Say the rating will have little impact on residents. They say they expect to see the city continue to grow. While taxes do help pay off this debt, those property taxes will not increase. No, theyre not, and we have. And we have never missed a debt payment, we continue to make those payments, and we dont hav
Womans body inside a burnt out mobile home. Fire crews responded to the home on the southwest side at 7 oclock last night. Firefighters arrived to the scene of 23 hundred block kelley street southwest to find the back half of the home on fire. Thats inside grand view village. During the search and rescue, fire cws found a woman inside the home. First responders pronounced her dead at the the Fire Department has not released her name. The fire and the womans investigation. A High School Wrestler from spencer has died after he collapsed on the mat during a match this weekend. Senior Austin Roberts was in the title match in the 220 weight class at the spencer invitational on saturday. The superintenden t roberts and his opponent walked back to the center of the mat when he collapsed. He later died at a hospital. The School Superintenden t says his death was tough on his schoolmates. Austin was a student that was bigger than life in many ways, a large young man, 220 pounder student, with a
Thanks kaj. Firefighters say they found a cedar rapids woman inside a burnt out mobile home. Fire crews responded to the home on the southwest side at 7 oclock last night. Firefighters arrived to the scene of 23 hundred block kelley street southwest to find the back half of the home on fire. Thats inside Grand View Village. During the search and rescue, fire crews found a woman inside the home. First responders pronounced her dead at the scene. The Fire Department has not released her name. The fire and the womans for the first time this president ial race a republican candidate has at least 40 percent support from voters. A recent cbs yougov poll of Iowa Republicans puts ted cruz and donald trump well ahead of the 11 other candidates. Texas senator ted cruz reached 40 percent he was at about half of that just two weeks ago. Donald trump has 31 percent. Florida senator marco rubio is third at 12 percent. The steepest drop is retired neurosurgeo n ben carson, still in h but only at 6 pe
Urging prospective employers to not ask job applicants whether they are convicted felons. Ey call the Initiative Ban the box. It refers to the box on applications that asks if youre a convicted felon. Members of the human rights commissio asked the Dubuque City Council to discuss that inititative. The council talked about it at yesterdays meeting, but the commission isnt asking the city to change a law or ordinance. It says it just wants a discussion. The Commission Says it can be next to impossible for a convicted felon to find a job after prison. They will be able to let the employers know, yeah i have a criminal background but this is what happened. as opposed to checking the box and the employer says nope, even if they may be qualified. The Dubuque Area Chamber of commerce says the change could could cause safety concerns for employers. The city of dubuque itself has removed the convicted applications. But it does criminal background checks. We told you earli this year abut the ban
Though colder air is creeping ever closer, and well keep a close eye on that one. Have a good day today am showers, cloudy high 3945 winds nw 1020 alo 38 dbq 40 iow 44tonight mostly cloudy low 2632 winds w 510 alo 27 dbq 30 iow 30tomorrow partly cloudy high 4046 winds s 515 alo 40 dbq 41 ioww43tomorrow night showers late low 3541 winds s 1015 alo 36 dbq 36 iow 38 firefighters say they found a cedar rapids woman inside a burnt out mobile home. Fire crews responded to the home on the southwest side at 7 oclock last night. Firefighters arrived to the scene in the 23 hundred block of kelley street southwest to find the back half of the home on fire. Thats inside Grand View Village. During the search and rescue, woman inside the home. First responders pronounced her dead at the scene. The Fire Department has not released her name. The fire and the womans cause of death are still under investigation. For the first time this president ial race a republican candidate has at least 40 percent su