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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library announced today that it is pursuing a plan to move and then elevate its flood-damaged museum building. The museum building will become part of a new and expanded facility. The 15-year-old structure is an architectural icon in Cedar Rapids and the museum’s red roof rising above the...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver says $150 million in federal funds will be made available for the purchase of 1,352 homes damaged in last year's floods.
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
The Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency on Tuesday approved a contract to sell at least 6,000 tons of ground-up wood debris to a Wisconsin plant that will burn it to produce energy.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - After one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history, Cedar Rapids plans to turn a flood-prone strip of land next to the Cedar River into a 220-acre greenway. But a few stubborn homeowners and businesses are refusing to leave.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - After one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history, Cedar Rapids plans to turn a flood-prone strip of land next to the Cedar River into a 220-acre greenway. But a few stubborn homeowners and businesses are refusing to leave.
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
After massive flooding, Cedar Rapids plans to turn a flood-prone strip of land next to the Cedar River into a 220-acre greenway. But a few property owners refuse to leave.
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
But 58-year-old Rick Ellis remains undeterred. After last year's flood, he hauled 14,000 pounds of debris from his home, which he hopes to have it fully habitable by October. He said he's willing to stick out the next flood and the one after because the federal buyout isn't enough for him and his girlfriend to buy a new home.
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Severe storms posed a threat to U.S. cities in the Midwest Monday, bringing a risk of tornadoes, damaging wind and hail, weather forecasters said. Meanwhile, officials said two people were struck by lightning in Northfield, N.J., Sunday, as thunderstorms pounded the region with gully-washing rain, winds and damaging hail, AccuWeather.com reported. In the Midwest, the...
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Time (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Huge amounts of money have been allocated to help victims of last year's disastrous Iowa floods but little has been dispersed
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
Iowa's slow and costly cleanup is still very much underway one year after floods destroyed thousands of homes and businesses.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Reuters) - Amanda Brandt is frustrated at what she sees as unmet promises to help her and her Iowa neighbors rebuild homes ruined by rain-swollen rivers that spilled over their banks one year ago.
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A hole in the government's disaster relief net has left many Iowa residents deep in debt and more than 1,000 households still waiting to learn what will happen to their damaged homes.
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Jaylynn Banks and her family have moved four times since the Cedar River burst its banks last June and flooded a huge swath of Cedar Rapids, including their neighborhood.Their home, like those of hundreds of others here, is too damaged to inhabit, so they pay rent along with their mortgage, all on an annual income of about $20,000 after taxes. With their living situation in constant...
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
It was possible to imagine a future Tuesday in which hundreds and hundreds of flood-wrecked Cedar Rapids homes no longer are sitting, empty and ugly. A much-awaited announcement by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will be sending a new round of Community Development Block Grant funds into Iowa [...]
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Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 04/25/2009
The Iowa House Friday passed a $115 million bonding bill to help University of Iowa officials rebuild flood-ravaged areas of the Iowa City campus. The Senate passed a $100 million bonding measure earlier this month. An amendment to the House version, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Cohoon, D-Burlington, adds another $15 million to the bill for veterinary [...]
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