Posted September 28, 2012in Political Mercury
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a high-profile Republican with clear national ambitions, championed a small-government theme in a colorful conservational speech to a partisan crowd in Sioux City on Sept. [...]
Read More →Your GuestView from Elizabeth Rose, “Fix the minimum wage” (Sept. 6) was emotionally appealing, but logically misguided. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could simply raise the minimum wage without [...]
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Posted September 28, 2012in Game Day
FIRST DOWN: And goal to go… The running joke in Manhattan is that when Bill Snyder starts a sentence, Collin Klein can finish it. Although lately, it’s become more of [...]
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Posted September 28, 2012in Featured Story
The rest of the story: A couple of weeks ago, Fred Van Liew, a former prosecutor, wrote a piece on the op-ed page of The Des Moines Register wringing his [...]
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Posted September 28, 2012in Food Dude
EBC is already drawing people who want to show off Des Moines to outsiders. Their first two beers are dramatic. Hannah Weiss is a bubbly, unfiltered beer with deep spicy [...]
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Posted September 28, 2012in Belly Up To...
Thunderhead beer came into this world in very much the same way as the idea for the establishment that touts it — from Nebraska. The Chicken Coop originally hatched out [...]
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Posted September 28, 2012in Uncategorized
soundcheck@dmcityview.com Abe Goldstein, host of Jazz at Caspe Terrace, has announced that this month’s performance will be cancelled. Shelia Jordan and Cameron Brown were scheduled to perform at the Waukee [...]
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Posted September 28, 2012in Uncategorized
Trouble Lights ‘The Endless Prom’ Maximum Ames If you live in central Iowa and enjoy electro-pop, you had damn well already be familiar with Trouble Lights. With apologies to the [...]
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Posted September 28, 2012in The Sound
soundcheck@dmcityview.com The Des Moines Symphony enjoys an important milestone this season: its 75th anniversary. “It means a lot to this organization and to the city,” said Sophia Ahmad, Director of [...]
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Chicago and the psychology of teacher bashing
In a deeply unequal society, the affluent will always sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them. Last year, state lawmakers in Illinois did their best [...]
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