Mayor Steve Gaer announced today that the City is constructing a citywide “open access” conduit network that will allow high-speed internet providers to enter the market by leasing space in [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Feature 1
COVID-19, coupled with social distancing, facemasks and cancelations, have altered central Iowa’s summer plans in a big way. That is no news flash. But as pandemic restrictions begin to lift, [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Feature 2
The food business has long operated on the brink of terror. Before the 20th century, when the U.S. became the best-fed country in the history of the world, people were [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Business Feature
Greg Stoll learned in January from several sources, as well as his own research, that a new virus was about to break out in China. Stoll, who taught international strategic [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Civic Skinny
Companies owned by Harry Stine, the richest man in Iowa, are among the 60,000 or so Iowa companies that have received around $5.1 billion in forgivable loans from the federal [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Political Mercury
Walk a box store or surf a retailer’s website with one of our nation’s top product safety advocates, and you’ll see some of the horrors he’s dedicated a professional life [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Film Review
From the very first frame to the opening shots of Spike Lee’s epic new Vietnam chronicle (though referred throughout the film by U.S. veterans and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians alike [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Food Dude
Change is the only constant. The frustrations of quarantine have inspired some people to become seriously cautious and others to become seriously oblivious of caution. I now get as many [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Your Neighbors
“Someone on our street…has been playing the bagpipes lately, and I love it!” writes one northwest Des Moines neighbor on an online community forum. “…I heard her practicing, (too)…” types [...]
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