Tippecanoe and Randy Feenstra, too
As it turns out, in all this nonsense about a rural-urban Iowa civil war, “them” is actually “us.” Carroll’s Kuemper Catholic High School Alumni Director Sharon Olerich reports that there [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Political Mercury
Posted March 25, 2015in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers…
Paid for in March Amount: $1,000.87 To: Zaps Learning Company For: ACT test prep Amount: $100 To: Iowa State University Athletics For: Entry fees Amount: $389.98 To: Menards For: Supplies [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in What the?
Next week’s photo: This week’s winner: “Dr. Seuss meets Breaking Bad — Horton Heard a Who was a meth drug runner!” -C. Butts Runners-up: “Randy found out the hard way [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Your View
Republican hypocrisy
I remember the debate about where President Obama was born. The Tea Party was taking advantage of the ignorance of the general population about citizenship. Their premise that he could [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in The Sound
Learning to fly
Flyleaf had an interesting problem on its hands. Normally, when an act achieves some level of success in the realm of “Christian music,” it is not uncommon to see that [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in On the Move
Photography company relocates to West Des Moines
Luchtel Photography is moving to West Des Moines from Scottsdale, Arizona and will specialize in real estate photography. Photographer Kelly Luchtel plans to begin accepting new clients April 1 and [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Duffy
Posted March 25, 2015in Tech Talk
HBO Later seems a better fit
Among the all-time colossal missteps in business, the biggest might be Coca Cola passing on the opportunity to buy Pepsi in the early 20th century. Sometimes the fate of one [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Film Review
Regurgent
For starters, here’s a caveat for this week’s review: I am not a teenage girl, so I acknowledge that I am not the target audience for “Insurgent.” Now, the caveat [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Cover Story
Taking charge
There is a new music venue opening in Des Moines soon. Anyone even mildly interested in, or associated with, the local music scene will tell you this is a good [...]
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