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. 20. “We don’t belong to the government; the government belongs to us,” Christie said. Christie, 49, a former U.S. attorney
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 any unseen negative effects? What we see are those people who get and keep jobs at the new higher minimum
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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 a passing joke. Kansas State’s coach and quarterback are in total sync right now, one mind, as evident in the
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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 hands over the case of “a bright and engaging 17-year-old, a boy with so much promise…a nearly straight-A student a
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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 flavors. Betty Blonde is an all-American pilsner that refuses to be simple and boring like most such blondes. The menu
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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 of Kearney, Neb., and its second location came to West Des Moines in 2005. The third opened in Urbandale in
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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 venue’s Bucksbaum Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 18. Unfortunately Jordan and Brown’s tour has been plagued with problems, which has resulted
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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 Midwest’s other purveyors of dance floor pop, there’s nobody around doing it better than the Ames duo. The thing that
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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 Marketing and Public Relations. “Seventy-five years of continuous playing — coming out of the Great Depression, surviving a World War.”
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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 to make a Chicago teacher strike impossible. They passed a new law that required at least 75 percent of the
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