CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia. – Cedar Rapids is No. 1 in the state — in how much it pays its city manager. Without comment this week, the City Council agreed to raise City Manager Jeff Pomeranz’s annual ...
Fairley—who had felt powerless the last time Cedar Rapids experienced a major disaster, a flood in 2008—fed people for free. “I wanted to do something,” he says. “And I was in a position ...