Amped Up?

The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that the city is seeking $12.2 million more in state I-JOBS disaster-related funds.

First on the list for “disaster-prevention” funds is an outdoor, floodable, riverfront amphitheater in the downtown at the cost of $1.75 million.

Disaster-prevention?

The only way that happens is if they don't allow any polka music to be played there and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Lord I apologize for that right there and as my penance here's one from the recently departed Mitch Miller.



I'm not sure how some of these other projects qualify as disaster-prevention either?

Removal of public infrastructure as part of the creation of a greenway along the river in northwest Cedar Rapids at a cost of $420,000 or a new Cedar River Trail underpass under the rebuilt CRANDIC Railroad bridge below Eighth Avenue SE at a cost of $450,000.