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Posted August 28, 2013in Your Money

Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines Public Schools

Amount: $1,694.86 To: 4 Imprint For: Purchase of Celebration shopping tote bags, including $74.86 in freight fees.   Amount: $2,979.79 To: A Tec Recycling Inc. For: Payment for recycling fees [...]

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Posted August 28, 2013in Locker Room

Is this heaven?

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! America’s true pastime can be found in heaven… er, Iowa. Let’s face it, baseball has lost some of its luster with today’s generation, and [...]

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Posted August 28, 2013in Cover Story

Winners of Cityview’s Bartender’s Ball Announced!

Cityview’s inagural Bartender’s Ball yielded fantastic results from the local nightlife crowd. About 250 people showed up to honor their favorite local service industry personnel. Nearly 500 were nominated by [...]

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Posted August 27, 2013in Rap Sheet

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Posted August 21, 2013in Civic Skinny

Younkers project is set to start.

It looks like the renovation of the Younkers store downtown — rumored for what seems like decades — is really happening. Two bond issues, totaling $24,450,000, are coming to market [...]

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Posted August 21, 2013in Political Mercury

Deace: Republicans should kill ‘false debate,’ sell ideas to changing nation

Nationally syndicated talk-radio host Steve Deace, an Iowa native who has built a national brand as an in-house critic of the conservative movement, says Democrats are out-gunning Republicans on strategy [...]

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Posted August 21, 2013in Film Review

Dumb-ass: The sequel

“Kick-Ass 2” 1 star Rated R 113 minutes Action Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse Exploitation-indoctrination cinema doesn’t come any more crass than this unnecessary follow-up to the [...]

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Posted August 21, 2013in Cover Story

Fall Arts & Entertainment Guide

Nothing says an end to summer like harvest time in Iowa and guilt-laden love handles in the wake of the fun but oh-so fattening Iowa State Fair binge. Kids are [...]

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Posted August 21, 2013in Book Review

‘The Golem and the Jinni’ is a believable fantasy

Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Shirley Shiffler Harper 4/23/13 $26.99 496 pp. As often happens at Beaverdale Books, a customer recently asked me what I’ve enjoyed reading lately. I [...]

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Posted August 21, 2013in Good Bad Ugly

The good Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa (BBBSCI) recently received a $4,000 gift from the Darden Foundation’s Restaurant Community Grants program, which will support BBBSCI’s Community Based Mentoring [...]

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