Posted June 05, 2019in Feature 3
Summer’s slate of outdoor live music has no shortage of music festival offerings, all within driving distance of Des Moines. Woodstock. This summer marks the 50-year anniversary of 1969’smother-of-all music festivals. Hosted on a 600-acre dairy farmin upstate New York, the event somehow caught the proverbial lightning in a bottle
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Posted June 05, 2019in Civic Skinny
Titan Tire is a deadbeat. The company or its affiliates own those 38 acres at 16th Street and MLK Jr. Parkway on the edge of downtown, land where the soil is dangerous and the buildings are dilapidated. Demanding the site be cleaned up, the federal government has been suing them
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Posted June 05, 2019in Political Mercury
Democratic candidate contends senator’s military background hamstrings independence. Republicans forcefully pushed back on Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Eddie Mauro’s contention that Iowans deserve a “different kind of courage” than Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, showed in the military — a hierarchical environment Mauro suggests restricts independent thinking and forces veterans to
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Posted June 05, 2019in Film Review
Turns out, it’s not that hard to get into college. “Booksmarts” follows the high school BFFs Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein), who’ve stayed out of trouble for their entire academic career so that they could get into the best colleges. But when Amy and Molly discover that all
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Posted June 05, 2019in Food Dude
Probably just what suburban diners want. Pad Thai is much more than a restaurant named for a famous dish. One of the world’s most famous inventions, Pad Thai is also a government-created cause. In the 1940s, Thailand suffered a rice shortage due to war and floods. Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram
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Posted June 05, 2019in Your Neighbors
When Frank Perez hears footsteps, the 76-year-old can still shift into another gear. Thump, thump, thump. “I heard these footsteps,” says 76-year old Frank Perez, as he remembers his best competitive moment at the Iowa Senior Games. Perez led after making the turn in the 200-meter dash. But behind him…
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Posted June 05, 2019in Joe's Neighborhood
The stuff of good dreams. Traveling with my mom was, for most of my life, the stuff of one of those late-night dreams we all have at one time or another — and not those good dreams. Rather the dreams where you forget to go to an important test at
Read More →Technology is ever-evolving and change happens in the blink of an eye. Manytimes you’ve just purchased and installed your equipment when something biggerand better is announced. Leasing has many advantages, such as: • Conserving cash – When you lease equipment, you pay as the equipmentis used, rather than making one
Read More →I am amazed at how many high income business owners I work with who do notunderstand the concept of defined benefit plans. Traditional pension and cash balance plans allow for owners and executives to shelter large amounts ofincome on an annual basis with plan designs that can maximize their contributions
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