The crack of the bat!
Few things say springtime like baseball. Spring training for the teams is a signal for us Iowans that the snow will soon be completely gone and the green grass will [...]
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Posted March 05, 2025in Publisher
I am an Irish mutt
I am mostly Irish. At least that’s what my mother said. She also told my siblings and me that our great-great-grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian from the “Crow’s Feet” [...]
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Posted February 05, 2025in Publisher
Autographing with excellence
Who doesn’t want to be the best? In some way, I believe we all do. In most cases, being “good enough” simply isn’t good enough. We want to do better. [...]
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Posted January 01, 2025in Publisher
I like to know who I am buying from
With 2025 now upon us, and as we begin to break the New Year’s Resolutions we committed to just days ago, I can’t help but think about the importance of [...]
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Posted December 04, 2024in Publisher
Chestnuts roasting
Welcome to our holiday issue of CITYVIEW. With Jack Frost nipping at your nose, you will find warmth in our collection of holiday stories this month. Our favorite Christmas songs [...]
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Posted November 06, 2024in Publisher
Justice and closure
In June of this year, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced the launch of her office’s new cold case unit to investigate more than 400 unsolved murders in Iowa. I wanted [...]
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Posted October 02, 2024in Publisher
It was a graveyard smash
I was in the fourth grade when my teacher, Mrs. Lensch, noticed how a group of us boys were quite interested in Halloween monsters. She suggested we put on a [...]
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Posted September 04, 2024in Publisher
A better choice than my mother’s list
We tend to complain about travel times, potholes in our roads and slow service, but imagine having to ride a horse to your county courthouse to complete your necessary transactions. [...]
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Posted July 31, 2024in Publisher
Headknocking at the Iowa State Fair
Live music is as much a part of the Iowa State Fair as the big boar, the butter cow and food on a stick. And rightfully so. Iowans love [...]
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Posted June 05, 2024in Publisher
A journal of history?
I never intended for CITYVIEW to be a journal of history. I still don’t. We tend to focus much of our editorial efforts on things that are going to happen [...]
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