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Posted August 31, 2022in Just Released

Hy-Vee honored with Hope For The Warriors Chairman’s Award for Corporate Citizenship

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (August 31, 2022)  – Hy-Vee, Inc., a Midwest-based grocery retailer, was recently presented with the Chairman’s Award for Corporate Citizenship at the Hope For The Warriors’ Summer Soiree, [...]

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Posted August 31, 2022in Feature 1

Art… outdoors

As temperatures cool down, it’s the perfect time to venture outside and explore the hundreds of outdoor art pieces located around Des Moines. From traditional murals and sculptures to more [...]

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Posted August 31, 2022in Feature 2

Educator exodus

As a new school year begins, education personnel remain in short supply, and schools across the nation are taking drastic measures. In Florida, veterans can teach up to five years [...]

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Posted August 31, 2022in Business Feature

Back to school for businesses

“Everything revolves around school time,” said Ryan Harkema, superintendent of Ankeny Parks and Recreation. Students returning to a daily school routine with sports practices and extracurriculars is a headache felt [...]

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Posted August 31, 2022in Civic Skinny

Palmer postpones retirement. Campaign dollars climb. VA clinic opens.

The Prairie Meadows Board of Directors recently voted to extend the contract of CEO Gary Palmer, who had formerly planned to retire at the end of 2023. “I had a [...]

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Posted August 31, 2022in Political Mercury

What it’s like being falsely tagged as a child molester

A head-spinning, bizarre twist to one of the ugliest political episodes in these most uncivil of times is that the Michigan state legislator, Republican Lana Theis, falsely accused her Democratic [...]

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Posted August 31, 2022in Film Review

‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’

“Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” has this awkward name apparently because creator Toriyama actually forgot the series was called “Dragon Ball Super.” He intended the title to be “Dragon Ball [...]

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Posted August 31, 2022in Food Dude

Irina’s Steak & Seafood

National chain restaurants are true believers in templates. They don’t deviate much from one store to another in menu or floor plan. Des Moines restaurant groups take a different path [...]

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Posted August 31, 2022in Des Moines Forgotten

LOOK Magazine

“Radical on the social issues of the 1960s — women’s issues, counterculture, and even a gay couple that were clandestinely married by a renegade minister” LOOK Magazine was founded in Des [...]

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Posted August 31, 2022in Joe's Neighborhood

‘Butter and love, baby’

If you are lucky, you will wake up some morning and smell a doughy, cinnamon concoction drifting up the stairs. The smell will slip under your blankets, tickle your chest, [...]

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