A new challenge
Iowa Barnstormers enter 2020 with a new coach and some big shoes to fill. Semi-pro indoor football is a fast-paced game of constant change. Just when you thought a battle [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Feature 2
Posted February 05, 2020in Business Feature
Playing music in your business?
Here is what every business owner should know about licensing. Businesses and music have been intertwined for years. As part of an overall marketing effort, businesses create ambiance and atmosphere [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Civic Skinny
McCoy needs GOP’s help to become Polk chair. Home sales. CITYVIEW, Register circulation figures.
No one seems to have noticed — there’s not even a press release on the website — but Matt McCoy was elected chair of the Polk County Board of Supervisors [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Political Mercury
The exclusion of rural Iowans in politics
“Step aside, hick,” the urban Democrats can tell us. Talented rural Democratic candidates for the Iowa Statehouse with deep wells of connectivity in their communities — like Stuart’s Warren Varley, [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Film Review
‘The Gentlemen’
Guy Ritchie’s latest film is a rehashed pastiche of a bygone era. Make no mistake: “The Gentlemen” is classic Guy Ritchie. Scoundrels of all sorts cross paths in an ever-widening [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Food Dude
Graduation of University Avenue
Restaurants here mostly known for unexpected delights rather than fine-dining superstars. University Avenue is chock full of happy eating surprises. Many of those are hidden away in real estate that [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Your Neighbors
37 mismatched napkin rings
And other Terrace Hill treasures “I taught for 45 years,” says Patrick Phillips-Schrock. As his official retirement date zoomed ever closer, he remembers wondering what was next. “This was my [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Joe's Neighborhood
Giants in the earth
Teaching was David’s thing. Music was David’s thing. And equality was David’s thing. “There were giants in the earth in those days.” Genesis 6.4. Yup, that’s what the Bible says [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Center Stage
Beat the winter blahs
With a show… or two…or more. The beauty of living in a land of rugged winters is finding the indoor options that beckon to sweep us into compelling stories, rollicking [...]
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Posted February 05, 2020in Collections & Hobbies
Norwalk man will compete to win $10,000 and a world championship
Matt Ouverson won last year’s Steak Cooking Association Points Championship and will vie for a world title later this year. Last year’s steak grilling national points championship cost Norwalk’s Matt [...]
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