I don’t know as much about birds as I should, but I enjoy seeing and hearing the songbirds that roll through the region every spring en route to points farther north. With help from others who know ...

In mid September, nine young students gathered in the Newbo District for the first meeting of Cedar Rapids’ Girls Who Code club. The group is designed to tackle the growing gender gap in Computer ...

Most of you good people are not from Cedar Rapids. Some of you never have reason to step foot in my hometown, and have little reason to be interested in it. I get that. Please, indulge me. There is a ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and that is certainly the response we’ve seen from businesses and organizations across the Cedar Valley dealing with the current workforce shortage. Employers are ...

We’ve had many reports lately of gorgeous cedar waxwings. One excited birder (my sister) even told me about spotting a flock of them in the small trees lining the sidewalks of the Roundhouse. An extra ...

Cedar Rapids Opera’s Lift Every Voice: Artist in Residence Program, established in 2022, places a professional vocalist/teaching artist in local high schools several times annually. This artist works ...

If you have ever stood in a queue at Cedar Point, waiting to hop on one of its premier rides after dropping a mountain of cash for the opportunity, you should be furious. Last week a woman waiting to ...

Botanist Linda Curtis emailed me with good news. “We saw flower buds on the water marigolds that had been swept to the Lehmann Park shore by the derecho last week,” she wrote. She wasn’t referring to ...