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Posted January 30, 2013in Duffy

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Posted January 30, 2013in The Sound

Lynch tops charts on wings of ‘Angels’

Dustin Lynch has been playing country music since he was 15, but for this Tennessee boy, his story really starts at The Bluebird. The Bluebird Café is one of the [...]

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Posted January 30, 2013in Good Bad Ugly

The good The Des Moines Area Association of Realtors Foundation recently announced that, since 2000, it has given more than $300,000 to local Des Moines charities to meet community needs. [...]

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Posted January 30, 2013in Film Review

Living large

“Stand Up Guys” 3 stars Rated R 94 mins. Comedy Starring: Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Christopher Walken “Stand Up Guys” is a respectable compact crime drama comedy about camaraderie among [...]

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Posted January 30, 2013in Your Money

Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines

Amount: $19,030.60 To: CPMI Construction LC For: Payment for construction project at the Grandview Golf Course Clubhouse.   Amount: $10,994.44 To: The Hansen Company Inc. For: Payment for construction to [...]

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Posted January 30, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story

Harkin shakes things up and leaves a legacy. Your Legislature at work: Nipple rings, free food

There have been four spectacular Democrats in Iowa in the past 50 years: Harold Hughes, Neal Smith, Tom Vilsack and Tom Harkin. Harold Hughes fathered the community-college system and liquor [...]

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Posted January 30, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts

The Shoemaker or the Elf

Do you remember “The Elves and the Shoemaker” by the Brothers Grimm? You know, a typical redemption story — great guy, good worker, family man, not enough food, one last [...]

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Posted January 30, 2013in Book Review, Recent Posts

‘Truth in Advertising’

Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang Touchstone Books 1/22/13 $24.99 320 pp. We are nearing Super Bowl Sunday, and what do we look forward to the most? Yes, [...]

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Posted January 30, 2013in Your View

Stop enacting vote- suppressing measures

New voter ID laws and voter purge rules proposed by Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz and Republican legislative leaders impose an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote. These [...]

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Posted January 30, 2013in Sound Stage

Thankful Dirt

In the 2003 film “Lost In Translation” Bill Murray’s character is in Japan to shoot a commercial wherein his only line is: “For relaxing times, make it Santori Time.” Well, [...]

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