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Posted May 31, 2023in Feature 2

Summer jobs — they work!

Times are changing in the workplace. Overall, young people are less eager to join the labor market than previous generations, particularly since COVID shutdowns. Many companies are turning to retired, part-time [...]

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Posted May 31, 2023in Business Feature

Speakeasy trend grows in Des Moines

After Congress ratified the 18th Amendment in 1919, the manufacturing, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages were banned nationwide. However, Iowa started its own prohibition in 1916. But prohibition efforts [...]

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Posted May 03, 2023in Feature 2

Spring sports preview

If you are looking for fast-paced sporting action this spring and summer, you are in luck. The Des Moines Menace soccer team and the Iowa Barnstormers arena football team, although [...]

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Posted April 05, 2023in Feature 1

The Iowa Cubs’ most memorable games

As minor league baseball seasons go, the 2022 campaign more or less resembled most others for the Iowa Cubs. Until, that is, the very end. Trailing as they loped in [...]

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Posted April 05, 2023in Feature 2

Second chances

When Todd Cappel finished serving nine months in prison, he hesitated to apply for work. Thankfully, unlike many others emerging from incarceration, he had plenty of community support. “Part of [...]

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Posted March 01, 2023in Feature 1

A few days in the life of Wells Fargo Arena

The horse is smarter than your average bucking bronc. All the others just bucked forward and bucked back as they went around in a circle in the Wells Fargo Arena. [...]

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Posted March 01, 2023in Feature 2

A new normal — COVID after 3 years

A look back on the pandemic — and a glimpse of the future Masks hanging from rearview mirrors. “Unprecedented times.” Clear plastic partitions. “Stop the spread.” Social distancing stickers scattered [...]

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Posted February 01, 2023in Feature 2

Bridges of Des Moines

A history lesson and photographic feature on iconic local bridges Cross a few of our city’s many pedestrian bridges and tour the unique backgrounds of these hidden (and some not-so-hidden) [...]

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Posted January 04, 2023in Feature 2

‘Girls rule, boys drool’

In November, the New York Philharmonic became primarily female. Women outnumber men for the first time in its 180-year history. The New York Times termed it a “sea change,” noting that, [...]

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Posted November 30, 2022in Feature 2

’Twas the night before… — A Christmas classic for the holidays

Publisher’s note: Forty years ago, when Michael Gartner was editor of The Des Moines Register, he walked over to the desk of writer Bob Hullihan and said, “How about writing [...]

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