Amount: $908 To: Josalynn Agnew For: Payment for services provided for First Steps Dance Classes, winter 2013. Amount: $229.33 To: AKZO Nobel Paints LLC (Chicago, Ill.) For: Purchase of four gallons of hunter green paint and one gallon of stain for painting the trash barrels. Amount: $2,456.01 To:
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Posted March 13, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Cityview: “Dear [Rep. Josh] Byrnes. I write a column in Cityview, which sometimes is about politics. I’m told that you have told a few of your colleagues that you are considering switching parties. Is that so? And if so, why?” Rep. Byrnes: “I have a feeling something was taken out
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Posted March 13, 2013in Belly Up To...
The new owners of Doc’s Lounge in Johnston have lofty dreams of generally goofing off — so much, in fact, they’ve made it their business. It’s not that Mary Ann and Brian Lee don’t take their new business endeavor seriously, because they certainly do. Both work full-time day jobs, which
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Posted March 08, 2013in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES – New legislation introduced by the Iowa Department of Human Services would bar welfare recipients from using the taxpayer money they receive at strip clubs, bars and casinos and make the misuse a fraudulent act. But it fails to address how the department plans to enforce the proposed law
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Posted March 06, 2013in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES — At least 44 companies owe Iowa nearly $8 million for loans they received in exchange for a promised 1,388 new jobs that never materialized. The companies, instead, produced a total of 21 jobs, an Iowa Watchdog analysis found. As of the end of June, the state wrote
Read More →The good The state Department of Education said last week that Iowa’s graduation rate increased to more than 89 percent, the highest in the nation and up nearly 1 percentage point from 2011. Iowa’s four-year graduation rate ranks first nationally. Graduation rates increased in 172 of Iowa’s 318 school districts
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Posted March 06, 2013in The Sound
Jeana Calvert’s a Des Moines native who’s worked in and around Des Moines’ clubs for a decade now. “I’ve always wanted to be in the ‘men’s’ roles,” she said. “I wanted to be the manager. I wanted to run the bar.” Calvert jumped into one of the most male-dominated scenes
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Barb Palar Simon and Schuster 2011 $15 325 pp. Jean Thompson had me with the first paragraph: “The bride and groom had two wedding receptions: The first was in the basement of the Lutheran Church right after the ceremony, with punch and cake and
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