Iowa new boss, same as the old boss?
One of the worst kept secrets in Iowa is that U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, a Democrat, is considering a run for governor. Many in Iowa’s Democratic Party see [...]
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Posted April 15, 2013in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog
Posted April 11, 2013in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog
Government transparency advocates in IA could lose footing
DES MOINES — A highly- touted and much-anticipated Iowa agency aimed at improving government transparency is in jeopardy just three months before it’s set to open its doors because of [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in Geek Chic
‘Wearable tech’ not just for sci-fi and spy
No longer relegated to the fictional worlds of Iron Man, James Bond and Star Trek, sometime within the next two years your friends and family will start sporting computerized watches, [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in Belly Up To...
Cumming Tap, a happy accident
Every once in a while in Des Moines, you’ll spot someone wearing a T-shirt with the shape of Iowa printed on the chest enclosing the clever sexual innuendo: “I <3 [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in Film Review
Breaking the chain of racism
“42” 4 stars Rated PG-13 Biography Starring: Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford Writer-director Brian Helgeland’s methodically balanced biopic about revered baseball legend Jackie Robinson manages a near-impossible feat of [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… City of West Des Moines
Amount: $7,206.35 To: Polk County Auditor and Commissioner of Elections For: Fees for holding a special Ward 2 election on Feb. 12, including printing ballots and registers ($2,496.50), legal publications [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in On The Tube
Can’t we all just get along?
Alien races try to coexist in the post-apocalyptic ‘Defiance’ Syfy boasts that “Defiance” marks the first conversion of TV and online gaming. The drama will unfold as both a series [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
King leans toward Senate bid
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, who recently has characterized his likelihood of running for the Senate as something of a toss-up, went further last Monday. “I think that needle’s just [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
How ISU spent about $1 million at the Liberty Bowl
The Des Moines Register had a little two-paragraph item in the sports section the other day that said Iowa State University made $15,366 from its participation in the Liberty Bowl. [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in Book Review
‘The Twelve Tribes of Hattie’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Knopf Dec. 6, 2012 $24.95 243 pp. University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Ayana Mathis has earned well-deserved acclaim for this painful [...]
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