Why the downtown Y still has no swimming pool.
He has sold the naming rights for $1 million. He has built the building that will house the Prairie Meadows Pool at the new $40 million Wellmark YMCA downtown. Now [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Civic Skinny
Posted November 11, 2015in The Sound
Tales from the road
Martin Sexton — native of Syracuse, New York, and the 10th of 12 Sexton children — has gotten to where he is now in life through a series of battles. [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Duffy
Posted November 11, 2015in Political Mercury
Jindal: America’s a melting pot, not salad bowl
The youngest major-party candidate seeking the presidency passed something of a campaign endurance test Saturday in speaking for 90 minutes — much of it a question-and-answer session — with about three [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind
Rapper DMX was arrested, yet again, and charged with a contempt of court warrant on Oct. 27. He had a warrant for allegedly failing to pay child support, but when [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Sound Notes
Noce, the Max Wellman-run jazz and cabaret lounge, has announced the date and time for its grand opening celebration. The venue, located at 1326 Walnut St., will open its doors [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Book Review
‘Marvel and a Wonder’
The grit is palpable in Joe Meno’s “Marvel and a Wonder.” So much so that at times I found myself forgetting that it took place in 1995 on a farm [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Food Dude
Year-end joys
“The inevitable never happens, it is the unexpected always,” wrote economist John Maynard Keynes a century ago. Not much has changed in 100 years. Who foresaw the day when basketball [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in On the Move
Fox Brewing Co. opens in West Des Moines
Brian Fox has opened a brewery and taproom at 103 S. 11th St. in West Des Moines. Located south of Railroad Avenue and S. 11th Street intersection, Fox Brewing Co. [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Joe's Neighborhood
A cat’s life
At 5:15 this afternoon, the vet is coming to put our cat down. It’s hard to believe. Chester lies still on a blanket on our son’s bed. An old guy. [...]
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