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Posted April 08, 2025in Just Released

Des Moines Arts Festival® Opens Volunteer Opportunities

Over 800 volunteer shifts are needed to support the award-winning Festival (Des Moines, IA) – The Des Moines Arts Festival® presented by Nationwide is recruiting volunteers to fill over 800 [...]

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Posted April 03, 2025in Morain

04/03/25

There are few comparisons—maybe none—in American history to what President Donald Trump proposes for takeover of Greenland by the United States. Trump refuses to rule out military conquest of the [...]

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Posted April 02, 2025in Feature 1

Here come the cubbies!

The Iowa Cubs team is an institution in Des Moines. I-Cub fans pack the ballpark all season long and even watch at home. The fan loyalty is evidenced by CITYVIEW [...]

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Posted April 02, 2025in Feature 3

Iowa Barnstormers return key players for 2025

After a challenging season in 2024, the Iowa Barnstormers are looking to make a comeback for 2025. Barnstormers Head Coach Dave Mogensen and his club entered the season after a [...]

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Posted April 02, 2025in Feature 2

Drake is winning

  Growing up in 1950s Des Moines, my family’s backdoor neighbor was an elderly German professor of Humanities at Grinnell College. Because our backyards were our baseball fields, we kids [...]

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Posted April 02, 2025in Business Feature

The business of chocolate

Chocolate isn’t just a treat. It’s a business built on creativity, strategy and its fair share of planning. At three metro chocolate shops, owners are doing all that and more [...]

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Posted April 02, 2025in Civic Skinny

Why is Iowa the only state not to double in population since 1900? How have the tariffs impacted Iowans? And were sharks added to Iowa’s list of dangerous wild animals?

Iowa is the only state in the union that has not seen its population double since 1900. Don’t expect that to be part of our state’s economic development marketing campaign [...]

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Posted April 02, 2025in Political Mercury

‘Yellowstone’ is the most anti-adoption series in TV history

Any conflicted pregnant woman who watched the just-concluded Paramount series sensation “Yellowstone” likely scheduled an abortion before the final cowboy deserted Kevin Coster and Taylor Sheridan’s fictional Montana ranch. Costner should reimburse [...]

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Posted April 02, 2025in Film Review

Th-th… that’s (not) all, folks!

  The Warner Bros.-owned franchise began as a series of animated shorts that were released during the golden age of American animation between 1930 to 1969, and more than 1,000 [...]

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Posted April 02, 2025in Food Dude

Chicago Speakeasy is an ode to comfort

The year was 1978, a most Dickensian time. A murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, ended 909 American lives while Israel and Egypt were finding accord at Camp David, Maryland. Argentina won [...]

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