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If you prefer podcasts, you can also find us on iTunes. This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I’m here with your update for Tuesday, December 29th. I always open these news updates with the weather, but it just so happens it’s also the most impactful thing that will happen today.  The National Weather Service has declared a Winter Weather Storm Warning for much of Iowa starting Tuesday afternoon and heading into Wednesday morning. The heaviest snow, with a band of 6 to 9 inches expected, is forecast to fall in the area along, and to the north of, a line stretchin...

If you prefer podcasts, you can also find us on iTunes. This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette digital news desk and I’m here with your update for Monday, December 28th. After some rain and snow flurries Sunday, Monday is looking to be calm and just below freezing. According to the National Weather Service it is predicted to be mostly sunny in the Cedar Rapids area with a high near 28 degrees. There will be a low of 15 degrees Monday night, with increasing clouds. In general, the week’s weather is predicted to have high temperatures hover in the 20s and 30s. There is predicted to be a c...

Fri., December 18, 2020 FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a sign for Moderna, Inc. hangs on its headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The U.S. is poised to give the green light as early as Friday, Dec. 18, to a second COVID-19 vaccine, a critical new weapon against the surging coronavirus. Doses of the vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health will give a much-needed boost to supplies as the biggest vaccination effort in the nation’s history continues. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) Be sure to subscribe to The Gazette Daily news podcast, or just tell you...

Premium Content Subscriber only Annie Norrish could be described as a plant mother, lovingly tending to her babies until they’re hardy and ready to be sold to customers. Owner of Annie’s Nursery at Bucasia, Mrs Norrish said she spends her days propagating, re-potting, shaping and caring for the plants that comprise more than two-thirds of the nursery’s stock. “I’ve been in the industry for over 30 years,” Mrs Norrish said. “I started on the kitchen table. “There’s so much to offer with plants – by the time you propagate to the time they grow up, with the colours and fl...

sinking an american fighting two wars and economic crisis, barack obama is a message of hope changed. >> the road ahead will be long. the climb will be steep. we might not get there in one year or one term, but i am hopeful that we will get there. i promise you that we as a people will get there. >> backe i february , tim kane endorse barack obama. he did it before any official outside of illinois supported obama. he did it before the black caucus endorsed obama. i heard him speak in february of 2008 about what he did it. he talked about and obama that the nation had not met yet. tam...