Fairly nice
As of this writing, if you were to look up “The Nice Guys” on MetaCritic, you would see a rating of 68 percent positive, which is a good descriptor [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in Film Review
Posted May 25, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood
A Sarajevo bullet
“Honestly, officers, I just forgot it was there.” Words I have heard many a guilty criminal utter as they are hauled away to jail. The 5-inch, copper-cased bullet [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in On the Move
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Boomtown Ankeny The numbers are in, and Ankeny is growing at the third-fastest annual rate in the country at 6.5 percent, according to 2015 U.S. Census statistics comparing cities [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in Your View
The inequality gap
How much money is enough for America’s top executives? The AFL-CIO just released compensation comparisons showing the average CEO pay is now 335 times that of the average worker. The [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in Sound Circuit
Building confidence
Newton native Jacey Gutknecht has been interested in music virtually her entire life. By the time she was a freshman in high school, she was playing guitar and [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in Political Mercury
Patty Judge: ‘Old Iowa women are tough’
Patty Judge wouldn’t reveal the internal poll numbers inspiring that twinkle in her eye. But the veteran Iowa politician, the former lieutenant governor and state secretary of agriculture, says she’s a [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in Tech Talk
Amazon enters the cat video market
YouTube should not exist. With more than one billion users, trillions of hours of content, and more than 80 percent of users coming to the site from outside the [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in…
in Polk County May 17, 2016 Amount: $5,778,249.44 To: Miscellaneous payees of Polk County For: All bills paid by Polk County on May 17, 2016 Amount: $1,346,795.63 [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in Sound Notes
The curators of the annual 515 Alive Music Festival are bringing a new festival to the Des Moines area later this year. Dubbed the Kosmos Music Festival, the event [...]
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Posted May 25, 2016in Sound Check
Bob Dylan
“Fallen Angels” Columbia When Bob Dylan released 2015’s “Shadows in the Night,” the idea of an iconoclast like Dylan covering Sinatra seemed ridiculous. But the resulting album proved [...]
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