Posted October 24, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
You don’t see it so much in the cities of our state. But in rural western Iowa, the pro-life movement is visible and highly animated. Almost every day for the past few weeks on U.S. Highway 30, in the center of our community, the anti-abortion picketers are there. Steadfast. Drive
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Posted October 24, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
The race between Congressional incumbents Leonard Boswell and Tom Latham must be close. Or, at least, the disbursing agents in Washington must think it’s close. Between Oct. 2 and Oct. 18, the national parties and political action committees poured more than $1.8 million into political advertising in the third district.
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Posted October 24, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
Nothing starts a good argument like food. So two years ago, to determine a consensus about what central Iowans prefer between two slices of bread, Cityview instigated the Ultimate Sandwich Challenge. We followed that up last year with an Ultimate Pizza Challenge. More than 4,000 votes were cast for readers’
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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 17, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
The urgency in Congressman Steve King’s words sent me searching for a 1984 movie I hadn’t seen since, well, 1984 — on VHS. If what the Kiron Republican insisted in Orange City the other night is not mere campaign clutter but skin-shivering clairvoyance, we need to be locked and loaded,
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Posted October 17, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
Baseball’s post season was the biggest television event in American sports through the mid 1970s. Today those games are hard to find, even in sports bars, if they conflict with football telecasts. So this nostalgic fan spent the first week of the playoffs in front of his home TV catching
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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 10, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
Recession changes the way we eat. Look at the performance charts of both high- and low-end restaurant chains over the last 10 years. A new McDonalds Era began during the stock market meltdown of 2008. That’s no surprise; we all have to eat within our budgets. Food and travel TV
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Posted October 10, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
It’s a great irony. Not cruel. Just there. I’m in the business of conversation, recording it, creating it to illuminate issues, people, the many communities we cover. But I was too young to hear the most important conservations of my own life, the ones between my biological teen mother
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Posted October 03, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Polls show King in tightest race of career The two candidates for the newly drawn 4th Congressional District Thursday night faced their first pointed debate questions on three of the more defining social issues in modern politics. And the answers of U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, and Ames Democrat Christie
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