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Posted February 27, 2013in On The Tube

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 [...]

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Posted February 27, 2013in Belly Up To...

Get your day-buzz on at West End Salvage

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. [...]

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Posted February 27, 2013in Your View

Unmanned drones are bad for all

“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 [...]

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Posted February 27, 2013in Guest Commentary

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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Posted February 27, 2013in Your Money

Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines Public School District

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 [...]

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Posted February 27, 2013in Good Bad Ugly

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 [...]

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Posted February 27, 2013in Cover Story

2013 Best of Des Moines- SPORTS & REC

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 [...]

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Posted February 26, 2013in Uncategorized

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Posted February 26, 2013in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog

Iowa’s economic authority board members award their own companies with incentives

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 [...]

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Posted February 20, 2013in Sound Notes

Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week

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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