Organ Celebrates 25 Years at the Cathedral
Entering St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral during a performance is like walking inside of a living instrument. The Cathedral itself was built in 1885 in the Gothic Revival style, and the [...]
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Posted June 07, 2018in Just Released
Posted June 07, 2018in Just Released
Polk County Delinquent Property Taxes
Polk County Treasurer Mary Maloney announced today the number of Delinquent Property Tax parcels and the dollar amount is down from last year. “The number of parcels that are delinquent [...]
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Posted June 06, 2018in Just Released
Chicago artist Nick Goettling announced as 2018 Art Bus Feature Artist
The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) and the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation are partnering for the eighth time to wrap a transit bus with an artist’s [...]
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Posted June 06, 2018in Stray Thoughts
Tax-cut effects go beyond our pocketbooks
When Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the large tax-cut bill into law last week, she talked about how the legislation will allow hard-working Iowans to keep more of their paychecks. What the [...]
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Posted June 06, 2018in Just Released
Botanical Garden’s Summer Concert Series, Social Irrigation, Kicks Off June 14
DES MOINES, Iowa (June 6, 2018)—The Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden will launch its second season of Social Irrigation, its Thursday night summer concert series presented by EMC Insurance Companies, [...]
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Posted June 06, 2018in Feature 1
Who has your data?
And what are they doing with it? Swipe your loyalty card at the grocery store, and all of those purchases are now tracked. Browse for an item on a company’s website, [...]
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Posted June 06, 2018in Feature 2
Legends of the game
Ripping up the rulebook with slow-pitch softball heroes as they share their best on-field moments Slow-pitch softball is played nightly by all kinds of people at various levels of competition. [...]
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Posted June 06, 2018in Feature 3
Summer music festivals
The season just got even hotter It’s finally here. The season Iowans dream about on dark and frigid February nights. The landscape is once again lush and green, sweat beads form immediately [...]
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Posted June 06, 2018in Civic Skinny
What budget cuts? What pay freeze? Coaches get raises, athletic budgets keep growing. Food fight in East Village.
The budget cuts and pay freezes at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University have some big exceptions: Athletic budgets aren’t touched, and coaches will continue to get very [...]
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Posted June 06, 2018in Political Mercury
Steve King makes his case for re-election to Congress
Protecting the unborn. In answering a wide-open question about what he’d most like to see associated with his re-election campaign, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, didn’t hesitate in spotlighting the [...]
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