Red Hot Chili Peppers announce Des Moines date
Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced additional spring dates on their 2017 North American Tour, which will include a stop at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines on May 23, 2017. [...]
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Posted November 07, 2016in Just Released
Posted November 03, 2016in Just Released
Gov. Branstad to order flags at half-staff to honor police officers killed in the line of duty
Gov. Terry Branstad will order all flags in Iowa be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on the day(s) of internment to honor Des Moines Police Sgt. Tony Beminio [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Just Released
President Obama issues statement on police officer shootings
President Barack Obama issued this statement following the Wednesday morning shootings of two area police officers: “Yesterday, two police officers put on their uniforms to serve and protect the communities [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Just Released
Memorial funds established for fallen officers
Memorial fund accounts have been established at the Des Moines Police Officers Credit Union for Sgt Tony Beminio and Officer Justin Martin who were killed early Wednesday morning in the [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Just Released
Eight area bars and restaurants to donate all profits on Nov. 3 to families of fallen DMPD and UPD officers
Eight local bars and restaurants will donate 100 percent of profits from sales on Nov. 3 to the families of the two police officers who were shot and killed early Wednesday [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Just Released
Hy-Vee pledges $25,000 to fallen officers’ families
Following the devastating loss of Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin and Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio, Hy-Vee, Inc. Chairman, CEO and President Randy Edeker announced this afternoon that all [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Feature 1
Who are these guys? The people behind the famous Des Moines names
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose would smell as sweet by any other,” mused Will Shakespeare’s Romeo. As Romeo soon discovered, his thinking was fatally flawed. [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Feature 2
Lights! Camera! Iowa Energy!
A decade of D-League basketball in Des Moines. A look back. And the vision forward. It may be hard to believe, but it has been a decade since the Iowa [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Cover Story, Feature 3
Colonial Revival: Des Moines’ Witmer house comes full circle
It was the 1960s. We had a big car and a small house. That helps explain why driving around the city was one of our family’s favorite pastimes. Perhaps we [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Political Mercury
No, Rudy, men behind the curtain aren’t like Trump
Ladies, let me take you behind the curtain of male privilege and entitlement, into the locker rooms and fraternity chapter chambers and other sanctuaries of unapologetic American maleness. Right up [...]
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