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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Posted October 03, 2012in Featured Story, Food Dude
Wall-to-wall TV screens dominate the new super Hy-Vee’s Market Fresh restaurant. On a recent visit, each was tuned to a talk show, and all were muted. Why? Did restaurant consultants convince a team of architects and corporate executives that Urbandale diners all want a silent TV in their direct sight
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Posted September 28, 2012in Featured Story
The rest of the story: A couple of weeks ago, Fred Van Liew, a former prosecutor, wrote a piece on the op-ed page of The Des Moines Register wringing his hands over the case of “a bright and engaging 17-year-old, a boy with so much promise…a nearly straight-A student a
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