Soul power
In “Enlightened,” Amy (Laura Dern) is a troubled woman making crazy-ass stabs at transcendence. This season she has committed herself to doing something meaningful on this Earth by exposing corruption [...]
Read More →In “Enlightened,” Amy (Laura Dern) is a troubled woman making crazy-ass stabs at transcendence. This season she has committed herself to doing something meaningful on this Earth by exposing corruption [...]
Read More →Combining two of peoples’ favorite things to do, drinking and shopping, West End Salvage offers its patrons a non-traditional bar scene that’s easily missed unless you’re in on the secret. [...]
Read More →“Who died and made you God!” That was a saying back in coal-mining, small-town southern Iowa, where much of my philosophy about “telling it like it is” was born. To [...]
Read More →Amount: $50 To: City of Des Moines For: Payment of fine for violation of ice removal ordinance. Amount: $426,323 To: Jester Insurance Services For: Payment for insurance at the [...]
Read More →The good Some people say farmers are never happy — too much rain, too little rain, blah, blah, blah. Well, there’s certainly one thing they can’t complain about — farmland [...]
Read More →As the old adage goes, any job worth doing is worth doing right. Whether you’re flipping burgers at a local bar and grill, parading a catwalk dressed in drag, balancing [...]
Read More →DES MOINES – Members of an Iowa board charged with doling out millions to lure business to the state often work for companies that benefit from the incentive programs they [...]
Read More →The Des Moines Symphony is the 2013 recipient of Bravo Greater Des Moines’ Bravo Encore Award for its “sustainable, entrepreneurial and innovative programming,” a worthy choice thanks to its unceasing [...]
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Costs of ethanol should not include Iowa principles
We have another chapter about right-wing attacks on cherished Iowa principles and how institutions and people who should know better let them get away with it. This chapter begins with [...]
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