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 our small businesses and the impact that buying from them has on all of us — financially and emotionally. Simply
Read More →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 Do you have a favorite Christmastime song? One that makes you smile each time you hear it? If so, then
Read More →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 to publish a list of the 400-plus cases, and I asked Jim Duncan if he would be interested in writing
Read More →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 Halloween play for the class. So we did. Each of us played the role of one of the classic monsters
Read More →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. When Iowa was forming its counties, this travel-by-horse time was a major factor in determining where the boundary lines would
Read More →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 their music, and all kinds. The concert organizers at the Iowa State Fair realize this and continue to bring a
Read More →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 rather than things that already have happened. Even so, we all must have some idea of where we have been
Read More →With all the gloom and doom in the newspaper industry today, one might assume print publications of all sorts are also on the out. It is true that paid subscription newspapers and national magazines are struggling to find ways to be profitable and relevant. Even many of the once-thriving alternative
Read More →Like many youngsters across America, I played Little League baseball. I wasn’t a very good player, despite my mother’s encouragement, but I still enjoyed it. I could field the ball fine, and I was quick, but my biggest challenge was hitting. My older teammates encouraged me to line up close
Read More →Billy Joel penned those words in his No. 1 hit of the same name from his “Glass Houses” album of 1980. I listened to it with my friends while roller skating. The roller skating rink has since closed, but Billy Joel rocks on — and so does that song.
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