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Work on our streets easily than what we were doing prior to having local option sales tax available. Boom among the biggest projects the 42nd street craters from kennedy high to i 380. Also the west post road pot holes near truman school. School. You have to have patience. Neighbor shelly meyer says she hopes its smooth and finally stops the street flooding. The water really backs up from the base of the hill a couple blocks down i mean cars go through and its just a cesspool. Varoooom also on the list the rough ride near roosevelt on b avenue northwest. Northwest. Its just crumbling under our...

We wont see that sun come up until tomorrow. Once that sun does come up, well start to see those conditions improve. Heres a look at the radar. We are seeing a decrease in the clouds. Some scattered flurries. Cloudy for a majority of the night. Winds are gusty from the northwest but are starting to die down over the night. Temperature in the teens and 20s at this hour, but our [ indiscernible ] temperature is around 0. Tememrature is going to drop into the teens overnight with clouds, but we do have snow in our forecast. Well break that down in just a little bit. Several area cities are e in t...

There may be snow on the ground right now but cedar rapids is anxious to kick paving for progress into high gear. Gear. With a number of area streets dotted by massive pot holes and heaving pavement, city engineers say drivers will start to see construction crews out getting ready to go to work in march. They plan to do around thirty repair and reconstruction projects at a price of about 18 Million Dollars. Its all from the one percent sales tax approved by voters more than two years ago. Its really the first year that were strting some of these big reconstruction projects. Were able to do twi...

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