Paid for by taxpayers…
for fiscal year 2017 Amount: $612,421,165 To: Total of all city funds to be expended in 2017 For: Budget for fiscal year 2017 Amount: $61,003,604 To: Police department 38 percent [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Your Money
Posted March 16, 2016in Art News
Artistic hubris plus lawyers
Art depends upon the hubris of artists. For much of history, the tyranny of religion made the very idea of portraying a holy image so risky that only the bravest, [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Political Mercury
Why Hillary Clinton will select Elizabeth Warren as running mate
Let’s start with Hillary Clinton in her own words. Last summer, during a 23-minute interview, I asked Mrs. Clinton about a potential running mate, should she achieve the historic status as [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Tech Talk
The dream ends for Meerkat
Not everyone gets to work his or her dream job. Generations of children went through years of school dreaming of becoming an author. They read every book they could get [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Center Stage
Shadows on a seesaw
Tennessee Williams finds strange ways to break your heart. Toward the end of “The Glass Menagerie,” his first masterwork, there is a crushing moment when the hapless Laura hands Jim, [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Civic Skinny
Hensley’s housing vote pays off for her employer.
Maybe Councilwoman Chris Hensley didn’t have a conflict of interest last December when she cast a critical “yes” vote that allowed local developers to apply to the Iowa Finance Authority [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Your View
Republicans refuse to create jobs
It’s time for a pro-job agenda. In 2011 Rep. Paul Ryan presented a six-page plan to create jobs in which only generalities were presented, while President Obama had presented to [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Sound Check
Jeff Buckley “You and I” Sony Posthumous albums are usually a crapshoot. And the more albums come out after an artist’s death, the more likely it is that the quality [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Duffy
Posted March 09, 2016in Cover Story
Our Chance to Dance
This week, fresh on the heels of a slew of high school state championship events, Wells Fargo Arena will once again be packed with visitors, as the Iowa Events Center [...]
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