Posted June 01, 2016in Tech Talk
Almost from the moment Steve Jobs passed away, technology pundits have been hounding Apple over its lack of innovation. It is almost as if Steve Jobs was the puppet master who sparked every idea and controlled his engineer’s every coding move. The truth is, Steve Jobs had a brilliant
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Posted June 01, 2016in Center Stage
“You Can’t Take it With You,” the Broadway smash from 1936, has probably been in production somewhere ever since. A laugh-fest with a lot of heart, it took home the Pulitzer. An Oscar-winning movie and thousands of smaller stagings soon followed. “Also, you find the basic story in plenty of
Read More →Paid for by taxpayers in… Urbandale Community Schools To be paid on 5/23/2016 Amount: $832,189.86 To: General For: Total bills paid for one month on May 23 Amount: $425,637.79 To: Sales tax fund For: Fund Total Amount: $415,596.26 To: Larson & Larson Construction For: Services
Read More →Des Moines online fashion startup Men’s Style Lab has moved to the East Village. The company will soon sell clothing not just online, but also by way of an 8,000-square-foot brick and mortar building at the 500 block of East Locust Street. Much of the space is for its
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Posted June 01, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood
“Where do you come from?” the young copper artists in Sarajevo asked. My wife and I told them. “But where in the United States?” they insisted. We went into our typical patter that goes something like this: “A small state in the middle of the country called Iowa, it’s
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