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Workers Laid Off at Collins Aerospace in Cedar Rapids
Collins Aerospace has reportedly cut jobs here in Cedar Rapids. A company spokesperson confirmed the news on Thursday. The Corridor Business Journal reports that the statement did not specify how many workers were impacted or a reason for the layoffs. A company statement read in part, "To ensure we are best positioned to address our customers’ greatest needs now and into the future, we are taking actions to reduce costs and optimize our organizational structure globally."
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Waterloo schools withdrew 1st graders from a Black History Month book event, citing Trump orders. So locals organized an even bigger version.
Acclaimed authors and readers of all ages are gathering in Waterloo for an event on Saturday, but it’s not a new book festival. It’s “a liberatory act of reading as resistance,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Nikole Hannah-Jones, a co-organizer of Saturday’s read-in, explained on Talk of Iowa last week. “And we’re going to do it together as a community.”
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Adventureland Inn permanently shuttering its doors after 50 years
ALTOONA, Iowa — On Wednesday Adventureland announced that the Adventureland Inn will be permanently closing its doors. In 1973, just a year before the theme park opened, Jack Krantz opened the Adventureland Inn. The hotel has gone through many changes in its over 50-year history, including a million dollar project in 2002 that doubled the […]