Cedar Rapids and its surrounding communities are used to facing and overcoming challenges. Property-damaging flooding has always been an issue there. In fact, according to the city of Cedar Rapids, historic flooding and tornadoes in 2008 cost the Federal Emergency Management Agency $848 million, the agency s sixth-largest declaration ever. Total property damage was estimated at $6 billion. We feel as a community, if we can recover from the floods of 2008, we can meet any challenge, said Ron Corbett, business retention and expansion strategist at the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance. And that s the spirit that s in the in the community and obviously the business community and the citizens.
The Nonviolent Sit-Ins That Desegregated Nashville’s Lunch Counters
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April 18, 2021, 5:03 AM·16 min read
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On April 19, we will commemorate as well we should the twenty-sixth anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. But April 19 is also the anniversary of another consequential, albeit lesser known, bombing: On that date in 1960, a bomb went off at the home of Alexander Looby, the Black lawyer representing students and other activists arrested in sit-ins aimed at integrating downtown Nashville. Looby and his family survived, but the bomb blew out 147 windows at a nearby medical college.
Smart parking proposal also makes progress
Mayor John Cooper’s push to create a Nashville Department of Transportation via Public Works and Metro Water Services might let him implement a wide-ranging transportation plan even before establishing NDOT. But concerns persists that it risks unduly burdening Metro Water.
Nashville officials in December adopted a comprehensive transportation plan and, while NDOT would obviously be the agency to execute it in the long term, the administration intends to move forward before NDOT is established by giving Metro Water the responsibility of garbage pickup while shifting several responsibilities into Public Works’ domain. Another wrinkle: State regulators have criticized the water department as being
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Mike Osborne) The Nashville Department of Health has announced more COVID-19 vaccination appointments will be made available to Metro residents on Friday.
The new registrations will be in addition to the 20,000 appointments already made this week.
It took about four hours to register 10,000 appointments as Phase 1c opened on Monday. It took just two hours on Wednesday to register another 10,000 for the mass vaccination event planned at Nissan Stadium next week.
The current phase of the state’s immunization plan includes residents 16 and older with serious health conditions, pregnant women, and the families of medically fragile children.
Credit Nash. Dept. Health NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Mike Osborne) The Nashville Department of Health on Wednesday began registering 10,000 Metro residents for a mass vaccination event planned for later this month.
The drive-thru vaccination clinic will be held at Nissan Stadium beginning at 6 a.m. on Saturday, Mar. 20.
Residents qualified to register under the state’s Phases 1a, b and c authorizations can participate. That includes seniors 65 and older, the caregivers and household residents of medically fragile children, and anyone 16 and older with certain high risk health factors.
Residents can register by calling 615-862-7777, or register online at covid19.nashville.gov.