Posted February 20, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES, Iowa — Exactly what Sioux City’s automated traffic cameras have done to improve public safety is debatable, but the more than $1 million they’ve raised to fatten police [...]
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! WAKE UP CALL Police responded to a residence at the 1600 block of East Virginia Avenue just before 5 a.m. on Feb. 11. The [...]
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Posted February 19, 2014in Belly Up To...
At the Highland Park Country Club, the best seat in the house is one that probably won’t hold your weight. “We’re on our 34th year, and that’s probably been there [...]
Read More →Guided By Voices “Motivational Jumpsuit” Guided By Voices Inc. When Guided By Voices is on its game, the band can be very, very good. But let’s be honest, how often [...]
Read More →I have a problem — a great problem for any theater critic: I have enjoyed a season of theater, which required no digging to find compliments. If the Des Moines [...]
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Posted February 19, 2014in Political Mercury
It’s eye-rolling, this posturing and re-posturing of Iowa Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Jacobs. Faced with news that he gave money to a Democrat — former U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine [...]
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Posted February 19, 2014in Duffy
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Shirley Shiffler Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 5/21/13 $14.95 355 pp. Though an over-used description, “The Art Forger,” by B.A. Shapiro, is a genuine [...]
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Posted February 19, 2014in Food Dude
Ralph Waldo Emerson supposedly said, “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” That hasn’t been good advice. In “the Discipline of Innovation,” Tim [...]
Read More →Many of my childhood Saturdays involved the errand of tagging along with my father to his office to pick up something he forgot. He worked in a cubicle maze for [...]
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