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Posted October 03, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury

King, Vilsack debate turns to guns, gays and abortion

Polls show King in tightest race of career The two candidates for the newly drawn 4th Congressional District Thursday night faced their first pointed debate questions on three of the [...]

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Posted October 03, 2012in Your Money

Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines

Amount: $2,228 To: Quality Painting Company For: Payment for graffiti removal services at various locations — 45.5 hours of labor at $43.50 per hour and $248.75 in materials.   Amount: [...]

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Posted October 03, 2012in Good Bad Ugly

The good OMG! Is including that smiley face emoticon to a text message while driving really worth crashing your car? In celebration of the national “No Text on Board Pledge [...]

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Posted October 03, 2012in Your View

Your View

DART story is ‘right on’ Right on, Cityview, regarding your story about the bus service in the Des Moines area (“Two Weeks on the Bus,” Sept. 6). The powers that [...]

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Posted October 03, 2012in The Sound

The Iowa Music Store, local music finds global home

On Sept. 17, the good folks at Maximum Ames Records launched the new Iowa Music Store online. The brainchild of Caleb Swank, the Iowa Music Store is a place for [...]

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Posted October 03, 2012in Sore Thumbs

By Matthew Scott Hunter

DEAD OR ALIVE 5 (M)  ****  ‘Tecmo’  Xbox 360   The “Dead or Alive” series has always been famous for its adolescent infatuation with the full-figured, fairer sex, but the [...]

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Posted October 03, 2012in Book Review

‘The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel’

 By Louise Penny   Minotaur Books   Aug. 28, 2012   $ 25.99   384 Pages   “The Beautiful Mystery” is the eighth in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. It [...]

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Posted October 03, 2012in Sound Notes

Soundnotes Pick o’ the Week

The Thursday, Oct. 4, show at the Val Air Ballroom featuring heartland rock legends Kansas is, sadly, dust in the wind. For those of you who’ve already purchased your tickets [...]

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Posted October 03, 2012in On The Tube

Masters and servants, unite!

They fight Hitler together in the new “Upstairs Downstairs” The new season of “Masterpiece Classic’s Upstairs Downstairs” (Sunday, 8 p.m., PBS) begins in 1938 with a British radio broadcaster saying, [...]

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Posted October 03, 2012in Belly Up To...

Stone Brewing Co. Invades Des Moines

My neighbor has hops growing on his backyard fence. He caught the craft brewing fever a few years ago. This has fostered a passion not unlike the one that’s been [...]

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