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Bonne Finken and Sharika Soal sat in a booth at Raccoon River Brewery and, like just about everyone else last week, talked about Miley Cyrus. The pair have a slew [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in The Sound
Posted September 04, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
Removing the sting
Here’s a novel thought — people make mistakes. Usually not big mistakes. But mistakes, nonetheless. Frankly, I’ve made one mistake already this morning. (Was I really just rude to a [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Your View
Des Moines is behind in resources
There’s something that the African-American community and other communities can do to help stop crime and violence among the young people and youth on the west, south, east and northwest [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines
Amount: $950 To: BroadcastStore.com (California) For: Purchase of Sony video cassette recorder for the City Hall office. Amount: $498.82 To: Krames Staywell (Pennsylvania) For: Purchase of 13 lifeguarding instructor [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Rap Sheet
On the clock
Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! CRACK QUESTION Police took a report on Aug. 27 at the parking lot of Shop ‘N Save, 2100 block of Martin Luther King Parkway, [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Locker Room
Ronald McDonald joins High Trestle poker run
Though the temperature seems to continue to rise, summer is nearly over. Pools have started to close, and shorts are beginning to be packed up. But this is no excuse [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Civic Skinny
Besieged Dr. Baldi sells Foster Drive home.
Two homes in the suburbs have recently sold at big prices. On July 19, Marcus Hasting paid David E. Short $1,520,000 for a 5,122-square-foot home at 1732 Glenleven Terrace in [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Duffy
Posted September 04, 2013in Game Day
Fife is the one with the bullet
FIRST DOWN Oh, Lord, the jokes. They’re coming fast and furious now, like Stephen Colbert on the wrong end of a Red Bull enema. Q: How do you tell [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Sound Notes
First off, a mea culpa. Last week, we congratulated Chad Elliott on winning the Iowa Blues Challenge and advancing to the national competition in Memphis this January. But Elliott didn’t [...]
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