Posted December 05, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Sue Dvorsky is stepping down as chair of the state Democratic Party, Cityview has learned, and executive director Norm Sterzenbach is leaving as well. Party leaders will meet next weekend to pick the next chair, but in all likelihood the chairmanship will revert to being a non-salaried post. There’s some
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Posted December 05, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
The million-dollar question is: What do you do with this information? Featured as a speaker at a TEDxDesMoines event Sunday aimed at women, nationally-respected pollster J. Ann Selzer rolled out some spectacularly stunning numbers on the recent presidential election voting in Iowa. It was worth the $12 admission — if
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Posted December 05, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
HoQ is East Village’s latest fine dining hot spot. Its moniker is a shortened version of owner/chef Suman Hoque’s last name. Spelled, as it is on its logo, with only a lower case vowel, it’s also an acronym for “House of Quality,” a matrix applied in Quality Function Deployment. According
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Posted November 30, 2012in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES – Special education spending in Iowa has reached record levels in recent years, during a time when enrollment has dropped and test scores remain stagnant, an Iowa Watchdog analysis of state records shows. Iowa doled out $743.4 million in special education money — a figure based on the
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Posted November 28, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Seconds after Christie Vilsack’s seventh and final congressional debate this fall, her husband turned left from his front-row seat in Mason City and said to the writer Chuck Offenburger that the former Iowa first lady now officially had more stage experience than Tom Vilsack, a former two-term governor.
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Posted November 28, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Don’t feel too bad for Kirk Ferentz. Sure, the stony-faced, gum-chewing University of Iowa football coach won only four games this fall, giving the Hawkeyes their worst season since 2000. And sure his team isn’t going to a bowl game for only the second time in 12 years. And sure
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Posted November 28, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
When my colleagues ask one another what kind of restaurant they think Des Moines needs, answers almost always reflect worldly hopefulness such as Basque, Moroccan, vegan, Brazilian, dim sum, Ethiopian and molecular. However when real world restaurateurs put their money on the line to open a new place here, they
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Posted November 21, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
There’s more true American spirit in little Annie Nguyen’s smile than in a thousand political proclamations from our November-minded patriots. The politicians running for state and national office tell us about the American dream, where it is, how they can help us find it or why their opponents are leading
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Posted November 21, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
The Des Moines school system has a lot of deadbeat kids. Or maybe nice kids with deadbeat parents. Or maybe deadbeat kids with deadbeat parents. They’re skipping out on the money they owe the district for meals or after-school care or activity fees and the like. A lunch here, a
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Posted November 21, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
“Table d’hôte” menus began in 17th century inns. One could rent a room with or without a set meal that was shared by other guests. After modern restaurants developed (as a consequence of the French Revolution leaving so many cooks unemployed), the term was applied to multi-course dinners with limited
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