John Ramsey
John Ramsey has worked and played in the local automobile game for 50 years, playing a role in car dealerships at various locations bearing his family name. Cityview asked him [...]
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Posted April 05, 2017in Lunch With...
Posted March 01, 2017in Lunch With...
Kristian Day
Kristian Day is the only Des Moines guy I know who has a page on IMDb (Internet Movie Database, the ultimate Who’s Who of Hollywood). It’s most impressive for someone [...]
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Posted February 01, 2017in Lunch With...
Frank Cownie
Frank Cownie has been called “a grown up all American boy,” and it fits. He’s tall, blonde, a champion swimmer and a successful businessman. He’s also become one of the [...]
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Posted January 04, 2017in Lunch With...
J Ann Selzer
J Ann Selzer is a prophet of trends in politics and business. She has operated The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll since 1987 and has worked with Bloomberg News and [...]
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Posted November 30, 2016in Lunch With...
Bill Northey
Bill Northey is arguably Iowa’s most popular politician. Certainly the margins of victory in his last two re-elections support that. Blue-eyed and outgoing, he retains a boyish enthusiasm as he [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Lunch With...
Graham Cook
Graham Cook has been Des Moines’ most eccentric corporate leader for decades. Standing more than 6-foot-6-inches tall and skinny, he jokes that he would be typecast to play a mortician [...]
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Posted October 05, 2016in Lunch With...
Sons of the Don
Luigi “Cock-eyed Louie” Fratto took the name Lou Farrell when he moved to Des Moines in 1934. He quickly became Des Moines’ most notorious “mob associate.” Among other things, he [...]
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Posted August 31, 2016in Lunch With...
Maggi Moss
Success and notoriety have paced Maggi Moss through several careers that few Iowans have enjoyed even once. She rode out of Madison Square Garden three years in a row as [...]
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Posted August 10, 2016in Lunch With...
Steve Berry
Steve Berry is a familiar face around town. He was the on-air face of Fox 17 through most of the 1990s and hosted the “Family Fun Game” from 1993 to [...]
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