Eye spy stealthy filming devices
Somewhere in the last decade, technology surpassed nuclear weapons for the greatest threat to modern living. To name a few concerns, the government spies on all our communication, robots and [...]
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Posted April 16, 2014in Tech Talk
Posted April 16, 2014in Rap Sheet
On the clock
Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOMECOMING Police responded to the 3000 block of East 14th Street around 2:30 p.m., where a teenaged female reported [...]
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Posted April 16, 2014in Center Stage
‘The Crucible’ of witchery, tragedy and storm
Last Saturday night, midway into the second act, “The Crucible” brought the thunder. Set at the Salem courthouse, 1692, the witchcraft trials went from bad to worse. Innocent townsfolk found [...]
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Posted April 16, 2014in Belly Up To...
Benchwarmers is a Cyclone bar and more
It’s good to, as they say, “Never judge a book by its cover.” Upon surveying the outside of a small, dark joint on Ankeny Boulevard, I wasn’t sure if I’d [...]
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Posted April 16, 2014in Joe's Neighborhood
When a building dies….
When a building dies, do we mourn the loss? With all the real troubles in the world — the real suffering, the real terror, the real death — it seems [...]
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Posted April 16, 2014in Civic Skinny
Who are top docs getting Medicare money? Fees in the Godfrey case now top $500,000.
First of all, the disclaimer. Just because a doctor gets oodles of money from Medicare doesn’t mean he takes it all to the bank. Doctors have to buy medicines, pay [...]
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Posted April 16, 2014in Sound Notes
It’s time once again for the start of “80/35 band announcement season.” The Des Moines Music Coalition gets things kicked off this year by announcing one of the two headliners: [...]
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Posted April 16, 2014in Duffy
Posted April 16, 2014in Sound Check
Amps For Christ “Canyons Cars and Crows” 5 Rue Experimental folk/noise project Amps For Christ is back with its first full-length album since 2006’s “Every Eleven Seconds.” If you’re familiar [...]
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Posted April 16, 2014in Your View
Puppy mills — sad and hopeless?
Thank you for writing the excellent story on Iowa’s puppy mills (“Puppy Wars,” April 10). I am a follower of Iowa Voters for Companion Animals and Iowa Friends for Companion [...]
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