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Jan 21, 2025 | 
thegazette.com | Nicholas Johnson
A hotel manager, overwhelmed with guests’ complaints about slow elevators, turned to elevator companies for expertise. The experts tweaked the elevators, but the slow elevator complaints continued. A systems analyst staying there got wind of the complaints and told the manager, “You don’t have an elevator problem.” “I think I do, smart guy. If not elevators, what is it?” “You have a complaints problem. I’ll think about it and give you a solution tomorrow.” His solution?
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
thegazette.com | Jeff Linder |Tom Barton |John McGlothlen |Nicholas Johnson
CEDAR RAPIDS — Sophomore driver Reggie Mitchell has given the Alburnett community plenty to cheer about this summer. And they’ve stayed by his side. One of the Alburnett Young Guns competing at Hawkeye Downs Speedway, Mitchell, 15, has racked up an impressive five wins, 10 top-five finishes and sits in second place in the Hobby Stocks division with just one race remaining.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
thegazette.com | David Chung |Althea Cole |Todd Dorman |Nicholas Johnson
Something unusual is happening at Tire Trained gym in Marion. On the surface, things look typical. The first round of clients file in before dawn for the 5 a.m. strength training session, sweating it out amid bright pink stability balls and very heavy barbells. The clientele is largely women, encouraged by trainer and owner Amanda Rae Campbell to lift heavy, eat what fits your macros, and lean into each other as a support system.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
thegazette.com | Althea Cole |Todd Dorman |David Chung |Nicholas Johnson
So I was having a nightmare about Republican politicians incessantly using the term “woke” to label everything they oppose. Then my woke alarm went off. I hit snooze a couple of times but woke will not wait. I woked downstairs and got my dog’s breakfast ready. He woked it all down and went out to do his business. Meanwhile, my woke machine brewed a delicious, hot cup of woke. It’s a nice, woke day, so I decided to take my dog for a long woke. We woked and woked for about 30 minutes.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
thegazette.com | Nicholas Johnson |Matt Degner |Norman Sherman
‘The greatest wealth of a community lies not in the amount of its treasure, but in the quality of its leadership.” That quote opens the very first booklet at the close of the very first Leadership for Five Seasons class in June of 1983.
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Jun 16, 2023 | 
thegazette.com | Nicholas Johnson |Dexter Merschbrock |Norman Sherman |Erin Murphy
Staggering in its size and scope and impressive in its design and thoughtful attention to detail, Cedar Rapids’ flood control system is making progress as we mark the 15th anniversary of the flood of 2008 this week. The project is estimated at $750 million, although inflation may drive the total cost closer to $1 billion by the time it’s slated to be finished in 2035. So far, 30 percent of the system has been completed.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
thegazette.com | Vanessa Miller |Jeff Linder |John Steppe |Nicholas Johnson
DES MOINES — Two firms have been tasked with investigating the partial collapse of a six-story apartment building in downtown Davenport that left three dead, many injured and dozens displaced, the city announced Wednesday. The city hired White Birch Group LLC and SOCOTEC Engineering to complete a cause and origin report that will be shared with the public “when deemed appropriate," city officials said in a statement.
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Apr 8, 2023 | 
thegazette.com | Jennifer Sherer |Todd Dorman |Nicholas Johnson |Vanessa Miller
Iowa’s secretary of state has mailed notices to more than 565,000 voters who didn’t vote in the 2022 general election that they’re now considered inactive voters. It’s required under legislation approved in 2021 by the Republican-controlled Legislature. Miss one election, and your status changes to inactive. Before the 2021 law was approved, voters were considered inactive if they missed two general elections. These inactive voters can vote as they normally would through November 2026.
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
thegazette.com | Caleb McCullough |Todd Dorman |Althea Cole |Nicholas Johnson
As we wait to see which hyperpartisan bill clear a legislative funnel deadline this week, it’s remarkable that bipartisanship isn’t completely dead under the Golden Dome of Wisdom. It pops up occasionally, like a spring flower sprouting through the muck of March. Sure, it may get run over by the Republican bulldozer. But let’s mark its fleeting appearance. State Rep.
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Feb 15, 2023 | 
thedaonline.com | Nicholas Johnson
Designs for Sodexo’s newest dining club are almost finished, and school officials say construction may start later this spring in time for next year’s basketball season. According to Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director and Business Operations CFO Simon Dover, the Sodexo Coliseum Apron Club will sit outside the Coliseum just north of the Gold Gate. The club will be accessible from the parking lot, although it will not have a view of the court. “It's an old building.
