Almost afraid
Intrigued by the mention of the 1,382,855 ranked book by Michael Gartner, “Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense,” in last week’s Civic Skinny column, I quickly Google searched the subject. I [...]
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Posted June 17, 2015in Your View
Posted June 10, 2015in Your View
What’s the difference?
After reading Civic Skinny last week (June 4, 2015), let me see if I understand this correctly. The husband (James Conlin) of a past Democrat nominee for governor (Roxanne Conlin) [...]
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Posted June 03, 2015in Your View
Numbers don’t lie
Ninety years ago, Prohibition was a prevailing illusion. Today’s illusions are different. Law enforcement has broken down, especially at the top. Once again, so many in politics and the media [...]
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Posted May 27, 2015in Your View
More sauce, please
Civic Skinny (May 21) brought me down with the accurate but depressing news of lawsuits involving apes, city trees, lawyers, the IRS and Central College. Then Cityview informs us that The [...]
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Posted May 20, 2015in Your View
Obama’s economic rescue vs. the Bush catastrophe
The latest April job numbers came in last week and added a respectable 223,000 new jobs driving the unemployment rate, which is down to 5.4 percent, the lowest since March [...]
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Posted May 13, 2015in Your View
Hensley’s tax revenue comment a gas
Some might wonder whether Des Moines City Councilwoman Christine Hensley might have taken Cityview’s April Fools edition of the Locker Room article by “Dive Riley” a bit too serious. Readers [...]
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Posted May 06, 2015in Your View
Sick of Jenner
For all the hype about gay marriage and things like Indiana’s religious freedom law, I find it quite odd that America is so infatuated about Bruce Jenner’s sex change. Is [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in Your View
Iowa’s water problems need solved
Twelve years ago, we set out with our young children to spend a weekend at Clear Lake, anticipating camping, swimming, canoeing and building sand castles. When we arrived, the lake [...]
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Posted April 22, 2015in Your View
Braley’s bailing isn’t the first
Mr. Gartner’s mention of Bruce Braley bailing out of Iowa after an election loss (Comment, April 16) reminded me of other past politicians who professed an “all for Iowa” loyalty and [...]
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Posted April 15, 2015in Your View
Grassley a scary gatekeeper
The U. S. Supreme Court left intact a ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled against a lawsuit initiated by the conservative Goldwater Institute [...]
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