City prepares to give mystery company millions
DES MOINES, Iowa—West Des Moines city officials have cued up $36 million in local and state tax incentives for a company, but won’t tell its citizens who that company is. [...]
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Posted April 03, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
Posted April 03, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
Iowa senator calls BS on attempt to limit tax credits for fertilizer plant
DES MOINES, Iowa — Decorum flew out of the Iowa Legislature on Tuesday when political games led state Sen. Randy Feenstra, R-Hull, to describe as “bullshit” a bill before a [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in The Sound
The Train keeps a rolling
Wayne “The Train” Hancock is about as close to no-nonsense, blue-collar America as you can get. “I don’t have a tour bus. I don’t have a fancy house,” said the [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Duffy
Posted April 02, 2014in Sore Thumbs
‘DARK SOULS II’ (M) ****1/2 Namco Bandai Games Xbox 360 In “Dark Souls II,” your completely customizable avatar is cursed, and it shows. You’re tasked with exploring a sprawling and [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Your View
Duped again, nice job on April Foolery
Awesome! As soon as I got too FEARA (Federal Environmental Anomalies Reserve Agency) I knew something was up (“Snake Bite,” March 27), and the names were very clever! Well done. [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Civic Skinny
Little-known PER Board about to be in news. Another suit for Wahlert. IRS files on Tirrell.
Gov. Terry Branstad gave the labor people one more reason to be pissed at him the other day. He nominated former Fort Dodge Republican legislator Mike Cormack for the three-person [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Political Mercury
Braley and his Brooklyns
The West Tennessean walked tall. And he spoke in a manner one would expect from the curator of so many things associated with the famous 1973 movie based on tall-walking [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Cover Story
Gangs of Des Moines
There was only one point in the past six months when I thought I was going to die. I was sitting in a house on the south side of Des [...]
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Branstad and Iowa, a sequel to film ‘Ground Hog Day’
The Iowa film industry — beset by tax-credit scandals a few years ago — can regroup and recoup in producing a sequel to the 1993 film, “Ground Hog Day.” Remember [...]
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