Month tcr announced they cast an actor who can hear to play a deaf character in their upcoming play tribes. The decision sparked outrage in the Deaf Community. The theatre says they were limited by who auditioned but they could have done more to find deaf talent. Talent. Today theatre cedar rapids hears the local Deaf Community loud and clear. Tcr recently cast an actor who can hear to portray a deaf character named billy in the upcoming play tribes. 082904 theres only five weeks left, im not sure we have the ability to Work Together. The Deaf Community wants tcr to recast the the role of billy with a deaf actor right now or post pone the play so they can all Work Together for a representative cast. 083712 if you postpone this show and you recast, the Deaf Community will love you for it. They will attend your shows. This is a long term solution. If you dont do it, no they will never come. They wont. Ifthats the path tcr takes deaf advocate carly armour says theyll respond. 094937 commu
Right now, lowpaid workers in linn county are one significant step closer to a ra. Raise. On a four to one vote closer to a raise. On a 41 vote linn county supervisors passed the first wading are reading a minimum wage increasing if passed it would increase 7. 25 rate to 10in to 25 an hour by 2019. Fox 28 News Reporter joe huis favor of the raise. Reporter they want to raise it to give workers a liveable pay. We are in the position because state has to the done anything in almost 10 years. Reporter the supervisors generally agree on the 3 dollar increase over 3 years but today they removed an automatic raise based on the Consumer Price index every year after 2019. I just dont believe in tying the hands of future policy makers to a formula. That are at that particular minimum wagewhile the county is sold on a wage increase some members of the public are not. Richard bice is a retired Business Owner who continues richard bice is a retired business own here mentors young companies. The on
Thunderstorms are threatening to drop heavy rain in parts of iowa that dont need it. It. Weatherfirst chief meteorologist terry swails is tracking tonights potential for an afternoon fire at a popular cedar rapids restaurant forced thousands of motorists to find an alternate route downtown. Downtown. Fox 28 news anchor kevin barry talked to the owner of rileys cafe and shows us the struggles firefighters faced on scene. Scene. Not many people saw flames from rileys three alarm fire. Fire. But nearly everyone has rileys about 15 years ago but theres been a restaurant in this now charred store front for three decades. Decades. Same spot same location its been a meeting spot where people come and have business meetings and have family gatherings here its quite a loss, such an iconic restaurantcedar rapids finest sent every truck they had with about 30 fighters cycling through chasing flames through rileys roof. Roof. Wayne winn owns mcduffys next door his manager called in the fire. Fire.
Support as the Campaign Shifts to dozens of other states set to hold primaries and caucuses in the coming weeks. Weeks. Turning to the democratic race, vermont senator Bernie Sanders will easily take tonghts primary. This was a state clinton won during her unsuccessful 2008 campaign, but was unable to repeat that performance tonight. The candidates themselves are only beginning to respond to tonights results. Results. For more on that, we turn to fox 28 news anchor and host of iowa in focus kevin barrykevin. The thing to know about tonight is that the winners came out exactly as hampshrie pretty easily there could be a few reasons behind that. What might be mo influential is that all his talking about Border Control could loom pretty large in a state thats battling a heroin epidemic thats been traced back to mexico. The bigger story is john kasich. He finished 8 8 in iowa and in New Hampshire reviving the latest reaction on social media. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, we take a c
Opportunity and empowerment so every single american can have that chance to live up to his or her godgiven potential. And then and only then can america live up to its full potential. Potential. Our experts tell us from here clinton will only get stronger because she has a campaign thats already set for a national campaign. Since Bernie Sanders took everyone by surprise they say he likely doesnt have the infrastructure in place to compete much after these early primary states. Super tuesday could be the first time when voters really see that. Kevin barry fox 28 news. The Clinton Campaign says march is all about the math. Tonight former president bill clinton is on the campaign trail for super tuesday. Tuesday. Spent the day with crowds of voters in oklahoma. He told them Republican Debate on thursday night proves Hillary Clinton is a better choice. For like a minute and a half the three leading candidates were talking together first i thought it was like a musical trio nobody stopped