Saddle up!
“Turn the channel, Shane. That show is making the living room dusty.” Those were my father’s words in one of his numerous attempts at humor while I was watching Silver [...]
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Posted July 02, 2025in Publisher
Posted June 04, 2025in Publisher
Iowa’s beauty, intermingled destinies, a sex party and cottage cheese containers
You have heard it many times. A picture is worth a thousand words. The actual origin of the adage is spotty, but the saying clearly gained prominence in America in [...]
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Posted April 30, 2025in Publisher
‘A Festivus for the rest of us’
If you watched the popular TV show “Seinfeld” in the late 1990s, you are smiling right now. If you didn’t watch the show, well, read on, as you can still [...]
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Posted April 02, 2025in Publisher
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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