While smartphones are generally designed to help users gather information from the outside world, a new application aims to help monitor one’s health through the scientific process of urine analysis. Now before you’re turned off by the “ick” factor this idea generates, no, you will not be peeing on your
Read More →‘Bates Motel’ is an appealingly eccentric sequel to ‘Psycho’ One has misgivings about a prequel series based on “Psycho,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror masterpiece about a misfit’s murderous fixation on his mother. But the eccentric “Bates Motel” (Monday, 9 p.m., A&E) gives you reason for hope, starting with the actress
Read More →Amount: $908 To: Josalynn Agnew For: Payment for services provided for First Steps Dance Classes, winter 2013. Amount: $229.33 To: AKZO Nobel Paints LLC (Chicago, Ill.) For: Purchase of four gallons of hunter green paint and one gallon of stain for painting the trash barrels. Amount: $2,456.01 To:
Read More →
March 13, 2013 by justin
in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Cityview: “Dear [Rep. Josh] Byrnes. I write a column in Cityview, which sometimes is about politics. I’m told that you have told a few of your colleagues that you are considering switching parties. Is that so? And if so, why?” Rep. Byrnes: “I have a feeling something was taken out
Read More →
March 13, 2013 by justin
in Belly Up To...
The new owners of Doc’s Lounge in Johnston have lofty dreams of generally goofing off — so much, in fact, they’ve made it their business. It’s not that Mary Ann and Brian Lee don’t take their new business endeavor seriously, because they certainly do. Both work full-time day jobs, which
Read More →
March 08, 2013 by justin
in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES – New legislation introduced by the Iowa Department of Human Services would bar welfare recipients from using the taxpayer money they receive at strip clubs, bars and casinos and make the misuse a fraudulent act. But it fails to address how the department plans to enforce the proposed law
Read More →
March 06, 2013 by justin
in Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES — At least 44 companies owe Iowa nearly $8 million for loans they received in exchange for a promised 1,388 new jobs that never materialized. The companies, instead, produced a total of 21 jobs, an Iowa Watchdog analysis found. As of the end of June, the state wrote
Read More →
Iowa GOP adamant about its stupidity
Talk about Daniel in the lion’s den! Maybe Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal — an occasional visitor to Iowa because of his possible interest in being President some day — had better cross future visits off his list. That’s because in surveying the wreckage of the 2012 elections, Jindal told fellow
Read More →