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Posted September 08, 2014in Iowa Watchdog

Audit finds $355,000 in improper billing in Iowa public defender office

DES MOINES, Iowa — If all the claims for payment Jennifer Meyer submitted while working for the Office of the State Public Defender are accurate, then she’s the hardest working [...]

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Posted September 03, 2014in Film Review

Black, white and red

“Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” 4 stars Rated R 102 minutes Thriller Starring: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin Oozing with more hard-boiled wit than two [...]

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Posted September 03, 2014in GoodNightIowa

Des Moines Police Chief Judy Bradshaw announced her plans to call it quits after 34 years with Iowa’s largest department… When asked if she’s prepared for retirement the longtime cop [...]

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Posted September 03, 2014in Tech Talk

Stay tuned, Amazon’s gonna win

One of my favorite George Carlin’s one liners was simply “Stay tuned, China’s gonna win.” The sentiment is easy enough. China is a sleeping giant whose might will one day [...]

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Posted September 03, 2014in On The Tube

Good for what ails you

Critics have dutifully fallen in line for “The Knick,” an arty period hospital drama that makes its points with buckets of blood (see below). I recommend a more enjoyable period [...]

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Posted September 03, 2014in News of the Weird

All war is weird, but this ISIS war … As summed up by a Vox.com writer: “The absurdity runs deep.” America uses American military equipment to bomb American military equipment [...]

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Posted September 03, 2014in Sound Check

Patresa Hartman/ Karen O

Patresa Hartman “The Only Way Down” Independent Patresa Hartman has been a breath of fresh air in the Des Moines musical landscape. Someone who’s so humble and dismissive of her [...]

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Posted September 03, 2014in Political Mercury

Ku Klux Klan played role in Iowa Prohibition fights

Bryce T. Bauer, the Audubon-raised author of a just-released book on Templeton Rye during Prohibition, spent about two hours reading selections from his work and answering questions at signing event [...]

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Posted September 03, 2014in Duffy

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Posted September 03, 2014in Sound Circuit

Not the same old song and dance

Often times the casual observer will hear “open mic” and conjure image of amateurs and beginning musicians lining up at some bar or coffee shop for the chance at getting [...]

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