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Posted February 12, 2014in Your Money

Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines Public School District.

Amount: $480 To: 1 To 1 Tutor For: Payment for academic tutoring services for five students in the fall 2013 semester.   Amount: $553.33 To: A.C.K. Enterprises For: Payment for [...]

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Posted February 12, 2014in Sound Check

Justin Niceswanger “Alternate Reality” Independent Sometimes bad news is best delivered quickly, like pulling off a Band-aid: This isn’t a good album. The most charitable thing that can be said [...]

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Posted February 12, 2014in News of the Weird

Modest Meat The International New York Times edition published in Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 22 carried a page-one story noting increased worldwide demand by meat processors for pigs raised in [...]

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Posted February 12, 2014in Political Mercury

Why Hillary Clinton should select Tom Vilsack as running mate

Some long-assumed sagacity about success in Iowa politics is this: never say things are going too well on the farm. Considering the last five years, that wisdom, which always sort [...]

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Posted February 12, 2014in Rap Sheet

On the clock

Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz!   FATAL CRASH Des Moines police responded to a crash on Feb. 4 at 8 a.m. on the Highway 5 by-pass just east of [...]

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Posted February 12, 2014in Food Dude

Ice-fished walleye and other Earthly delights

Seafood season arrived on the first weekend of this month, along with Bacon Fest, the Year of the Horse and the NFL championship game between the Denver Broncos and Seattle [...]

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Posted February 12, 2014in Tech Talk

Tell us what we need in 2.2

Why is the Internet full of lists? Headlines with numbers in them? Pictures filling out social network feeds? And what is with all the random bolded text on the Internet? The [...]

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Posted February 12, 2014in The Sound

Sunshine on

Henry Wayne Casey — the titular “KC” who fronts the Sunshine Band — has been at this a long time. Generally regarded as one of the founding fathers of the [...]

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Posted February 12, 2014in Belly Up To...

Count the ways at 34’s

There’s a secret place around an unsuspecting corner, hidden beneath the hubbub of hub traffic between the two mall hot spots in Valley West — Younkers and JC Penney. If [...]

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Posted February 12, 2014in Sound Circuit

Moving forward

Dustin Smith and his group, The Sunday Silos, are the minds and talent behind some of this city’s best and most intimately soulful sounds. It’s a tradition of talent that [...]

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