Over the last three decades, Iowa’s prison
population has skyrocketed — from a total of
2,276 inmates in 1980 to 8,492 last Thursday,
according to the Iowa Department of Corrections.
That’s a 273 percent jump.
Is this reflective of an Iowa that’s a more
frightening place — or looking at it the other
way, a safer place — with three times as many
people behind bars?
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The
Sound Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em
Slaughterhouse deserves a salute for a tour
schedule that is nothing short of break-neck.
The Des Moines show will be the group’s 13th
city in 15 days. And they don’t stop there,
playing in Omaha the next night and 11 more
cities in as many days.
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Civic
Skinny
Romney is not a candidate; Steinke takes off
the gloves
Gov. Terry Branstad’s bold endorsement
of Mitt Romney last Tuesday — an hour
or so before Rick Santorum dropped out
— was in a press release on the governor’s
official letterhead.
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The Standard martini with New Amsterdam gin
and white vermouth was offered with the “dirty”
option of a splash of olive brine and three
green olives. Read
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Political
Mercury
Americans
Elect: irrelevant or surprise White House spoiler?
A
national non-profit and non-partisan
organization, Americans Elect, is well
on its way to ballot access in all 50
states and plans to hold
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Locker
Room Eight
seconds or bust
The
toughest bull riders in the world take
over Wells Fargo Arena
Eight seconds might
not seem like a long time, but try jumping
on the back of a 2,000-pound bull, and
it won’t seem so easy. For 20 years,
the Professional Bull Riders series
(PBR) Read
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