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Posted March 26, 2013in Uncategorized

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Posted March 26, 2013in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog

Iowa lawyers rack up the miles, leaving rural cities to pay at the pump

DES MOINES — Iowa spent more than half-million taxpayer dollars last fiscal year to pay mileage for out-of-town attorneys who represent the poor, even though local attorneys were available and [...]

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Posted March 25, 2013in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog

Iowa gov: no email record of $200 million gift to Egyptian firm

DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad’s attorney claims that no emails from the governor over the past nine months contain key words that could pertain to the controversial deal to [...]

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Posted March 21, 2013in Uncategorized

Robo Cops or Not

     

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Posted March 20, 2013in Your View

Why doesn’t the governor try using Medicaid?

Medicaid is state-funded, and so is the governor’s health insurance. If the state-provided care is so good as to not need federal intervention, why doesn’t the governor use it himself? [...]

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Posted March 20, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood

Morphine dreams

When the pain is too great, when it all is just too much, the doctors prescribe morphine. It is an interesting substance — this derivative from opium. In the early [...]

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Posted March 20, 2013in Duffy

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Posted March 20, 2013in Sound Stage

Band Bombshell Birthday

Local music blog Band Bombshell celebrated its one-year anniversary at Vaudeville Mews last Thursday with a show that featured three local acts: Gloom Balloon, Dustin Smith and The Sunday Silos [...]

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Posted March 20, 2013in Belly Up To...

Regress into a night of play at Brecks

Bar staff and patrons care about their health at Brecks. For example: “We drink so our livers have a job to do — we don’t want the little guy getting [...]

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Posted March 20, 2013in On The Tube

Murder? Madness? Maybe

‘Phil Spector’ tries to humanize the notorious music producer “Phil Spector” (Sunday, 8 p.m., HBO) has a startling premise: that the freaky music producer might be a human being. Against [...]

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