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Posted July 02, 2014in Iowa Watchdog

Board to spend $927,000 for a road to almost nowhere

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Woodbury County Board of Supervisors voted to borrow $927,000 for a road project which, the county engineer says, will be little used after 2016. CF Industries, which [...]

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Posted July 02, 2014in On The Tube

Home is where the heart isn’t

In the opening scene of “Finding Carter” (Tuesday, 9 p.m., MTV), 16-year-old Carter (Kathryn Prescott) shares a tender moment with her mother over frozen yogurt, then heads off to party [...]

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Posted July 02, 2014in Book Review

‘The Astronaut Wives Club’

Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Grand Central Publishing June 3, 2014 $17 320 Pages In 1959, when the names of the Mercury Seven astronauts were announced, their [...]

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Posted July 02, 2014in Tech Talk

Spend money to make money

Continuous growth is the demand of every shareholder and blight of every company. Everyone from CEOs down to mailroom clerks wants to rake in profits as much as investors, but [...]

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Posted July 02, 2014in Sound Circuit

More fun than ever

It’s a big, busy year for Brother Trucker. The band is a mainstay in the Des Moines landscape, and its members — front man Andrew Fleming, guitarist Mike Fitzpatrick, bassist [...]

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Posted July 02, 2014in Sound Check

Phish “Fuego” ATO Records People don’t tend to care much about Phish’s studio albums. There’s just something about that “live jam” feel that the band has never really been able [...]

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Posted July 02, 2014in Center Stage

All-time and timeless

Off in faraway places, I’m always hearing about our city’s opera. The rising star Michael Mayes, en route from one big stage to another, even got in touch via Skype [...]

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Posted July 02, 2014in On the Move

Movie-lovers rejoice: 10-screen theater coming to Altoona

Cinemark Holdings of Plano, Texas, said it has plans to build an all-digital movie theater on Adventureland Drive. The new luxury theater is expected to open in fall 2015 across [...]

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Posted July 02, 2014in Your Money

Paid for by taxpayers in… City of Des Moines

Amount: $880.72 To: Broken Arrow Wear T-shirt Printing & Embroidery For: Forty-nine T-shirts and polos with screen prints for the City of Des Moines Parks and Recreation Department Amount: $7,442.91 [...]

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Posted July 02, 2014in Rap Sheet

Metro’s most wanted NAME: Joshua Paul Thompson SEX: Male RACE: White AGE: 22 HEIGHT: 6’ 1” WEIGHT: 165 HAIR: Brown EYES: Blue DOB: 11/15/1991 CHARGES: Burglary, Weapons Charges Crimestoppers This [...]

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