In “Enlightened,” Amy (Laura Dern) is a troubled woman making crazy-ass stabs at transcendence. This season she has committed herself to doing something meaningful on this Earth by exposing corruption at the company where she works. Friends and relatives think she’s out of her mind, and Amy can’t help wondering
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Posted February 27, 2013in Belly Up To...
Combining two of peoples’ favorite things to do, drinking and shopping, West End Salvage offers its patrons a non-traditional bar scene that’s easily missed unless you’re in on the secret. At first glance, it doesn’t look like your typical bar. That’s because it isn’t. West End Salvage began as an
Read More →“Who died and made you God!” That was a saying back in coal-mining, small-town southern Iowa, where much of my philosophy about “telling it like it is” was born. To paraphrase this aphorism for my fastidious metropolitan and cosmopolitan compatriots, who elected President Obama the omnipotent judge of American (among
Read More →Amount: $50 To: City of Des Moines For: Payment of fine for violation of ice removal ordinance. Amount: $426,323 To: Jester Insurance Services For: Payment for insurance at the district. Amount: $292.53 To: Anaconda Sports Inc. For: Purchase of Nike Air Max Hyperagressor women’s basketball shoes. Amount:
Read More →The good Some people say farmers are never happy — too much rain, too little rain, blah, blah, blah. Well, there’s certainly one thing they can’t complain about — farmland values. Recent surveys from The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Iowa State University’s annual Land Survey both showed a
Read More →As the old adage goes, any job worth doing is worth doing right. Whether you’re flipping burgers at a local bar and grill, parading a catwalk dressed in drag, balancing the budget of a multi-million dollar corporation or running the state government, we believe you should take pride in your
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Posted February 26, 2013in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES – Members of an Iowa board charged with doling out millions to lure business to the state often work for companies that benefit from the incentive programs they oversee, an Iowa Watchdog review shows. Additionally, Iowa Economic Development Authority board members donated thousands of dollars to political campaigns,
Read More →The Des Moines Symphony is the 2013 recipient of Bravo Greater Des Moines’ Bravo Encore Award for its “sustainable, entrepreneurial and innovative programming,” a worthy choice thanks to its unceasing efforts to enrich, educate and enliven the capital city. Speaking of the Symphony, world-renowned violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg returns to Des
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Costs of ethanol should not include Iowa principles
We have another chapter about right-wing attacks on cherished Iowa principles and how institutions and people who should know better let them get away with it. This chapter begins with a member of the Iowa Board of Regents and a spokesman for the ethanol industry upset with a University of
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