Posted March 13, 2013in Duffy
Posted March 13, 2013in Good Bad Ugly
The good Two Iowa fire departments will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, which will be used to increase the effectiveness of fire operations and to support fire fighter safety at the Saylor Township Fire Department in Polk County, which was awarded
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Posted March 13, 2013in Sound Stage
Des Moines from a distance
I’ve been on vacation in Phoenix all week. So since I’ve been spending time in a strange city, I thought I’d take the opportunity to compare and contrast local music scenes. (Hello, IRS. Did I say “vacation?” I meant “business trip.”) It’s not a matter of which scene is “better,”
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Posted March 13, 2013in Cover Story
An Irish free-for-all
Poor ol’ Mick Flaherty. He got a wee too sauced at a downtown tavern last week — too much of the Guinness and whiskeys, one might suspect. He stumbled out of the pub and into a warm Sunday afternoon air. His drunken eyes squinted in the light as an ambulance
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Posted March 13, 2013in Your View
Vaccinations prevent deaths in children
In deciding what to put in their child’s bodies, be it food, beverage or medicine, parents should have the best information available. Unfortunately, in the discussion regarding childhood immunizations (“Shot? Not?,” Feb. 7) many of the facts have become elusive. We know: According to a study published in the New
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Posted March 13, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
Pigs fly, but not at Mi Mexico
One Hispanic restaurant owner tells about a pet peeve: “Time after time I will meet someone at an event, and they will ask me what I do. I say that I own my own restaurant. They say they never heard of it, and they tell me about their favorite Mexican
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Posted March 13, 2013in The Sound
Adrien Daller, always the team player
“My favorite thing about working in music is collaborating with people on things,” Adrien Daller said during an interview. “I’ve been doing more alone, but ultimately why I went into music was to collaborate.” Daller’s background is in musical theater, and eventually she moved to England to pursue that passion.
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Posted March 13, 2013in Geek Chic
Uchek, just add urine
While smartphones are generally designed to help users gather information from the outside world, a new application aims to help monitor one’s health through the scientific process of urine analysis. Now before you’re turned off by the “ick” factor this idea generates, no, you will not be peeing on your
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Posted March 13, 2013in On The Tube
The killing before the killing
‘Bates Motel’ is an appealingly eccentric sequel to ‘Psycho’ One has misgivings about a prequel series based on “Psycho,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror masterpiece about a misfit’s murderous fixation on his mother. But the eccentric “Bates Motel” (Monday, 9 p.m., A&E) gives you reason for hope, starting with the actress
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Iowa GOP adamant about its stupidity
Talk about Daniel in the lion’s den! Maybe Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal — an occasional visitor to Iowa because of his possible interest in being President some day — had better cross future visits off his list. That’s because in surveying the wreckage of the 2012 elections, Jindal told fellow
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