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The Gazette Company owned KCRG-TV (the call letters stand for "Cedar Rapids Gazette") until selling it to Gray Television, with the transfer being completed on October 1, 2015. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The company also owned KCRG radio (1600 AM) until selling the station to the owners of another local broadcaster, KZIA FM 102.9.
No federal district court judge in Iowa history served for a longer period on the bench than McManus. He died at the age of 97 on March 20, 2017, in Cedar Rapids; [2] at the time of his death, McManus was the longest serving living federal judge. [3] [4]
The two wed in 1956, and moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his wife had taken a job as a junior high science teacher. While a junior professor of social psychology, anthropology and statistics at the University of Iowa and Coe College , Magid launched his own company, Frank N. Magid Associates in 1956, selling his first research study to ...
Julie and Mark Beckett with their daughter Katie, meeting Ronald Reagan outside Air Force One at the Cedar Rapids airport in 1984. Julie Beckett was a part-time teacher and worked in a record store, before becoming her only child's full-time caregiver. [8]
The Gazette is the primary daily newspaper for Cedar Rapids. The Cedar Rapids Gazette won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936, under editor Verne Marshall and primarily due to his efforts and articles, for its campaign against corruption and misgovernment in the State of Iowa.
Iowa Farmer Today is a weekly newspaper, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that covers Iowa for crop and livestock farmers in the Midwest.. Iowa Farmer Today was launched September 8, 1984, [1] at a time when the tremors of the farm crisis were being felt throughout the Midwest.
Kerry Burt (December 17, 1964 – October 1, 2024) was an American politician from Iowa. He represented the 21st District in the Iowa House of Representatives as a Democrat from 2009 to 2011. [1]
Grant Wood's boyhood home, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is listed as one of the most endangered historic sites in Iowa. [2] Wood was born in rural Iowa, 4 mi (6.43 km) east of Anamosa, on February 13, 1891, the son of Hattie DeEtte Weaver Wood and Francis Maryville Wood. [3] [4] His mother moved the family to Cedar Rapids after his father died in ...