Gazette Daily News Briefing, November 17
This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette Digital News Desk, and I’m here with your update for November 17, 2023.
According to the National Weather Service it will be sunny on Friday in the Cedar Rapids area, with a high near 47 degrees. On Friday night it will be clear, with a low of around 27 degrees.
Starting in December, tenants will move into a new affordable housing development in southeast Cedar Rapids that will add 44 rental units to the city’s core, with five units reserved for young people aging out of the foster care system.
The Des Moines-based Hatch Kiernan Galloway Development Group on Thursday marked the near-completion of Cedar Rapids Brickstone, a $12.2 million, four-story multifamily building at 627 Sixth St. SE.
The project will provide supportive services to tenants in partnership with local nonprofit, Foundation 2 Crisis Services.
Of the 44 units, 34 will be reserved for tenants at or below 60 percent of area median income. Ten units will be marked for tenants at or below 30 percent of area median income, according to the city.
The Brickstone housing complex also is in proximity to other nonprofits and service providers, the Ground Transportation Center for bus access and the downtown Cedar Rapids Public Library.
Three of Iowa’s Republican U.S. representatives called on Republican U.S. Rep. George Santos to resign Thursday after a House Ethics Committee investigation found evidence of a string of alleged financial crimes tied to his 2022 campaign.
The House Ethics Committee’s report says Santos stole from his campaign, deceived donors into paying him personally when they thought they were giving to his campaign, and reported fictitious loans to his campaign he then used campaign funds to pay back.
Reps. Ashley Hinson, Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks called for Santos to resign from Congress, signaling that they would vote to expel him if he does not resign.
The three representatives, along with Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra, all voted against a previous me sure to expel Santos from Congress.
Santos said on Thursday he would not seek re-election in 2024 but did not say he would resign from Congress.
House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest, a Republican from Mississippi, will move to expel Santos this week, according to CNN.
The Iowa Hawkeye women won’t get to keep their #2 ranking for very long.
Kansas State scored the final 12 points and stunned No. 2 Iowa, 65-58, before a sellout crowd of 14,998 Thursday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
K-State came into Thursday’s game as the third-best defensive team in the nation, at 37 points per game. They held the Hawkeyes 34 points below their average of per game.
Iowa has good company in teams getting upset, though. Of the top 10 teams in the preseason Associated Press poll, Iowa was the eighth to fall so far. And it’s only mid-November.
