Cedar Rapids

It's costing $439 a person to like reach them with a television ad, and the same is roughly true in Portland, Maine and Bangor, Maine.

Just for that in comparison, if you go over to Iowa, like Cedar Rapids, House, uh, governor's race, Senate race, it's like $130 per person.

You know, like big, more, bigger population centers, you know, you're getting more bang for your buck.

Never heard of any of these cities or states, Peter-

So I usually go out with, uh, friends from the Midwest, Gail Rawson of Found Inform Vintage, um, and Andrea of To Hell and Back Vintage.

So they come out from Cedar Rapids, Iowa and from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

This time Andrea brought Lucy, her, uh, teammate from To Hell and Back Vintage, as well as Amy Mueller from The Workroom in Milwaukee.

So they were all there, and I just realized as I was, like, writing this out that that group was, like, half kind of Brimfield veterans.

She's got a tail.

A tail.

She was made in Cedar Rapids.

No, Grand Rapids.

And, uh, Jim Flanagan, uh, it was terrific show.

And Derek's gonna be, let me think, uh, at the Paramount Theatre, Cedar Rapids, coming up, uh, Friday.

So-

I, I, I don't wanna backseat announce you, Tom, but it sounded, it sounded like a pause in there where you were looking up the date.

Uh, he's gonna be coming down.

Looking forward to seeing him.

Um, uh, by the way, that same show, I think, is in Cedar Rapids coming up this Friday and Saturday, in Rochester, Minnesota.

Absolute, uh, 10 out of 10, thumbs up, great show.

just stupid stupid decisions man

yep yep i i have a story it's uh it's it's not my story um it's a story that my dad told me about some guys that he went to high school with and we don't have to get it deep into just like telling crazy stories but it's this one's wild and it's on my mind because it's local um you know you know sixth street in cedar rapids um it's it's The road that our kids' school is just off of, 965 turns into 6th Street.

Yep.

So...

Like a thing that I took away from that was like, there's a fucking underside.

Oh yeah.

Every community has like an underbelly, an underside where it's like, dude, bad, like bad shit like that happened in Cedar Rapids in the seventies.

Yeah.

Hello and welcome to the reading of the Cedar Rapids Gazette for Monday, September 21st.

I'm your reader, Teresa Whitaker, and let's take a look at the front page.

We have a large headline reading, Bouncing Back, and it shows a picture of firefighters working in July.

It's a tough subject because, again, there are just maybe some misinformation or just misunderstandings, Tigran said.

It's sometimes difficult to even know how to assuage those fears.

You are listening to the reading of the Cedar Rapids Gazette for Monday, September 21st on IRIS, the Iowa Radio Reading Information Service for the Blind.

And now I'm going to turn to our government notes section.

Cedar Rapids School Board closes in on goals.

But then you get into the minor league world, right? You've got the Quad City River Bandits, a little over an hour south.

You've got the Cedar Rapids Colonels, which, again, is only about an hour and a half away.

So, yeah, there are several options for baseball diehards like you.

I'll extend an invite right now.

I had played baseball actually at the University of Dubuque, as a matter of fact, speaking of my ties to Iowa there.

I got in and spent three years with the Waterloo Bucs.

Got out for a year, 2002, I was down in Cedar Rapids.

I was actually selling advertising, but one of my clients was the Colonels, and I was their official scorer back in 2002, that summer.

And our next story, Miller Meeks Bonahan to Debate by Tom Barton.

League is at Des Moines Bureau, Cedar Rapids.

Republican U.S. Representative Marionette Miller Meeks, Democratic challenger conservative.

Christina Bonahan will meet for a televised debate next month in Iowa's 1st Congressional District.

Federal Election Commission records show Brickford's campaign reported that $189,500 in total receipts through June 30th, including $100,000 in loans and roughly $61,900 in individual contributions.

The campaign reported about $64,700 in spending during that period.

The debate will air live on COZI 6.3 in the Quad Cities and KCRG 9.2 in the Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Iowa City.

Waterloo Market, plus all the streaming platforms for KWQC, KCRG, TV9, and KTIV in Sioux City.

It's just crazy small world stuff.

And he lives in Cedar Rapids now.

And he was a Protestant minister who, you know, one of these many stories, you know, as it's starting to happen more and more and more from Scott Hahn to Jeff Cavins and on and on, a Protestant minister who could give up his job, give up his career in order to, you know, to answer the call to be Catholic.

I mean, there's so many of us.

... which is, uh, unfortunate.

Adams' cousin, Sherman Hopkins Jr., drove to Cedar Rapids and broke into the unnamed domain owner's home.

The cousin, Hopkins, had a stolen gun with a taser, and a taser with him.

He was wearing pantyhose on his head and a hat, and dark sunglasses over his eyes.