DES MOINES – Want to know what Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s $130,000 yearly salary gets in other states? The Hawkeye State could afford nearly two governors in Maine, which pays Republican Gov. Paul LePage an annual $70,000, the lowest in the nation. Add in Branstad’s more than $50,000 per year
Read More →Play the “Name that Crime” Quiz! NOTHING IS SAFE A clerk from the Tobacco Outlet store on the 3400 block of Southwest Ninth Street called police around 6 a.m. on June 20 claiming two robbers had held him at gunpoint at his store. He stated he had arrived at
Read More →“Anna Nicole” shows surprising compassion for scandalous model Anna Nicole Smith The TV movie “Anna Nicole” (Saturday, 7 p.m., Lifetime) imputes a soul to the late Anna Nicole Smith, the model and gold digger who flaunted her self-destruction in the media. Anyone who remembers the barely sentient Smith will have
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Liveright Publishing Corp 6/3/2013 $25.95 383 pp Elizabeth Kelly’s new novel tells the story of Riddle James Camperdown and the dawn of the summer of 1972. Twelve-year-old Riddle lives with her father, Camp, and her mother, Greer, on Cape Cod. Camp, a
Read More →If you’re technologically inclined, you can hook practically anything up to a universal remote. Your entertainment center, house lights, heating-and-cooling system and much more can be accessed at the push of a button. As cool and convenient as that is, it would be really cool if those devices worked on
Read More →Ah, summertime in the city. Easily the greatest thing about the capital city’s hot and steamy months is all the live music that can be enjoyed outdoors — and often completely free. From larger events like Music Under the Stars and Nitefall on River to the neighborhood parties like Rendezvous
Read More →The Des Moines Symphony has announced 25-year-old Jared McCarty from Bussey as the winner of this year’s “Oh Say Can You Sing?” competition. McCarty will perform the National Anthem with the Des Moines Symphony at the 20th annual Yankee Doodle Pops concert on July 3 at the Iowa State Capitol.
Read More →King of the Tramps “Wicked Mountain” Old School King of the Tramps throws so much at you over the course of “Wicked Mountain” that it’s impossible to not find something to love. The Tramps are a bunch of supremely talented musicians, and “Wicked Mountain” is littered with influences pulled from
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