Posted October 17, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
I remember as a little boy riding the streetcars that ran down the middle of Ingersoll. I remember riding the Crocker streetcar with my grandmother to the very end of the line — on the west lawn of Roosevelt High School. I remember riding the Urbandale streetcar that ran through
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Posted October 10, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Ousted Lincoln High football coach Tom Mihalovich says that “in 35 years of coaching, I have never cussed out a player. I have never used profanity toward an individual player.” It’s probably all in the definition of cursing. Maybe he doesn’t think “motherfuckers” is cursing. Or “Do your fucking job!”
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Posted October 03, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Quote of the week, or maybe the year, as reported by Jeff Eckhoff in The Des Moines Register: “My dad’s so tight you couldn’t pull a needle out of his butt with a tractor.” That was Diane Johnson, dismissing the idea that her father would have loaned former Polk County
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