Amount: $30 To: Donald Shreffler For: A settlement from a claim that his mailbox was hit by a snowplow Amount: $63.75 To: APWA Bookstore (Missouri) For: Pencils and stickers for 2014 National Public Works Week Amount: $1,151.61 To: Melissa Johnson For: Subsidy for a sump pump replacement at
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Posted June 11, 2014in Joe's Neighborhood
It’s just a game. Nothing more. Something to pass the time. Perhaps you can do it with your kids on long car trips. Or with your husband, when he looks across the table at you in that nice restaurant with his usual bored expression. Or maybe you know someone in
Read More →I am a huge Cityview fan (going all the way back to the days when it was the Skywalker!) and I especially look forward each week to reading Civic Skinny. Just wanted to clarify that both Bill Northey (Secretary of Agriculture) and Mary Mosiman (State Auditor) DO indeed have Democratic
Read More →Turns out it’s not far from Sesame Street to Broadway. “Avenue Q,” now at Stagewest, demonstrates a terrific musical can combine puppets who look like Kermit and Oscar, kiddie-show singalong energy, and a healthy dollop of raunch. In 2003 “Q” garnered three Tony awards, and it remained on Broadway for
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Posted June 05, 2014in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES, Iowa — After approving a tax increase without having given the public notice or taking a formal vote, the Muscatine Community School District has pulled back — for the time being. After objections were made, the School Board, which had at least twice before passed tax hikes without taking
Read More →After playing together for more than 12 years, NEEDTOBREATHE needed to get back to its roots. The South Carolina band experienced some growing pains recently during the making of its fifth album, “Rivers In the Wasteland,” which debuted No. 1 on iTunes and No. 3 on the Billboard 200. “During
Read More →Tony Bennett has been hailed as the best interpreter of the Great American Songbook after the legendary Frank Sinatra. Following a rough period in the 1960s and ’70s, Bennett has surged back to become a popular and artistic success. He’ll be appearing on June 7 at the Des Moines Civic
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Posted June 04, 2014in Food Dude
I recently participated in a “restaurant nomenclature” project for a food association. Among the distinctions discussed was that between a “bar and grill” and similar things such as a pub, gastropub or microbrewery. We argued about history, geography and beers but decided that a bar and grill needs to be
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Posted June 04, 2014in Joe's Neighborhood
Omaha Beach. Utah Beach. Sword Beach. Juno Beach. Gold Beach. Seventy years ago, on June 6, 1944, thousands upon thousands of American soldiers came to Europe for the first time, up these “beaches” into Normandy. And over the next few months, thousands followed behind them for the push into Germany.
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Posted June 04, 2014in Duffy
