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The American Civil Liberties Union has reversed itself to  decide : now it’s gone too far. They will defend the right of speech, the right to associate, the right to protest and march. They will defend the rights of hate groups, hate speech, and the most egregious gatherings you can imagine. The ACLU’s initial instincts were right. What they will no longer defend is the right to do all these things while armed with guns. "We’ve had people with odious views, all manner of bigots. But not people who want to carry weapons and are intent on committing violence," ACLU spokeswoman Stacy Sullivan told the New York Times. In other words, your right to carry while shouting “Jews will not replace us” is something the ACLU will no longer defend. No, ACLU, You Are Wrong I get the intuition here. The scene in Charlottesville was terrifying for residents, especially since the alt-right protestors were not from the city. It was bone-chilling for most anyone who watched the news. The video...

By Steve Gravelle, correspondent Aug 27, 2017 at 6:46 am | Print View It’s changed the face of central Cedar Rapids , driving post-flood development in the New Bohemia and Kingston neighborhoods with new and reclaimed properties. In Iowa City, its backers see it as a way to downtown vitality. “From a community’s point of view, you get a more broad-based neighborhood,” said B.J. Hobart, managing member and co-owner of Hobart Historic Restoration of Cedar Rapids. The suburban single- family home isn ’t going away, but so-called mixed-use projects incorporating residential and retail, commercial and sometimes even light-industrial spaces in the same or adjoining buildings offer different options to residential and business tenants. In some places — think dense urban neighborhoods and small- town main streets with apartments above ground-floor retail shops — mixed-use patterns never went away. Mixed-use is especially appropriate in Iowa City’s central neighborhood...