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What are Des Moines’ goat ordinances? According to the city of Des Moines website, which lists the ordinances and laws surrounding all shapes and sizes of livestock within the city [...]
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What are Polk County’s dog ordinances? In Polk County, dog owners are required to annually obtain a dog license for any dog more than 4 months old. According to the [...]
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Why does Polk County send inmates to other county jails? One county jail might send inmates to another for a number of reasons. The most common ones are for court [...]
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What are the R2D2-shaped green boxes on nearly every West Des Moines residential block? We reached out to the City of West Des Moines to find out the answer. Communications [...]
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What is the cable and pulley system at the 63rd Street and Grand Avenue intersection used for? CITYVIEW reached out to the city of Des Moines for an explanation and [...]
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How long after construction ends does the DOT have to remove road construction signs? We asked Scott Nixon, District Construction Engineer at the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT), who said: [...]
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What are some of Iowa’s most interesting ghost towns? With the May edition containing our Summer Arts & Entertainment feature, we compiled many of the area’s most exciting, attractive and [...]
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What exactly does Heartland AEA do? The Heartland Area Education Association is the central and partially eastern Iowa “area” under Iowa’s Area Education Association. The counties included in the [...]
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Where and when did green beer start? With March underway and St. Patrick’s Day celebrations taking shape throughout the month, there is one tradition that has become synonymous with the [...]
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Remembering Chuck Betts, a nice man
“When someone asks how you’re doing, they don’t really want to know,” Chuck Betts mentioned over coffee a few weeks before he died at age 93 on Sept. 1. “They don’t want [...]
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