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In 1944, Tova Friedman and her family were taken to the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. She shares the story in her book The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope — and through TikTok, with the help of her grandson. Friedman visited Cedar Rapids and Mount Vernon in her first trip to Iowa.
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What began as a marketing effort for an Iowa opera house has grown to a collection of over 2,500 nativity sets.
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Black students at Grinnell College are asking for greater security and support in the community after targeted attacks and racist vandalism.
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Fourteen years ago, flooding along the Iowa River scattered the University of Iowa's fine art collection. This week, Iowans can revisit old favorites and new acquisitions in the new Stanley Museum of Art's first exhibition: "Homecoming."
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Inclusive ICR, a coalition in the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids corridor, is offering a new, free tool for area businesses to get assessments on diversity and inclusion efforts.
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Last week’s runoff election in Cedar Rapids is sparking interest in rethinking how the city chooses its mayors. The runoff was triggered when no candidate won 50 percent of the vote plus one during the regular election, forcing the top two to face off again. Now the top two candidates say they're open to the city reassessing the runoff process.
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Former TV journalist and nonprofit leader Tiffany O’Donnell beat out attorney and businesswoman Amara Andrews to become the next mayor of Cedar Rapids. The Democratic-leaning city is continuing its pattern of electing moderate Republican mayors.
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Tuesday is the last day that the Cedar Rapids Gazette will be printed locally. Shutting down the newspaper’s local printing press marks the end of an era.
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The first Black female mayor elected in the state of Iowa has died. Former Clinton Mayor LaMetta Wynn died in Lincoln, Nebraska last week at the age of 87.
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A local community organization is ramping up a fundraising campaign to open a non-profit grocery store in a Cedar Rapids neighborhood that was hard-hit by the flood in 2008. The development is part of the group's larger efforts to bring more life, activity and investment in the neighborhood.