Disappointed with Best Of
I just got done voting for some of the Des Moines “Best” venues, items, people, etc. in the Des Moines area. What a great way to honor local businesses; however, [...]
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Posted January 07, 2015in Your View
Posted December 31, 2014in Your View
No Christmas wishes to clergy?
CivicSkinny’s Merry Christmas to more than 200 Iowans and not one clergy among them? No sense in letting organized religion mess up a good holiday. Mike Rowley -Clive [...]
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Posted December 24, 2014in Your View
Democratic hypocrisy
Reader says image was stereotypical Cityview publication’s recent cover story (“Where do they go?” by Eleni Upah) dealt with important issues faced by transgender individuals in Iowa and across [...]
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Posted December 17, 2014in Your View
A modern Benedict Arnold
A modern Benedict Arnold Ted Cruz is holding up the budget vote in Washington. He wants to push his own anti-immigration bill as a part of the deal. But yet, [...]
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Posted December 10, 2014in Your View
Citizens United must be overturned
The recent midterm elections have proven the dire warnings about the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision have come true. The court ruling, in effect, gives corporations the ability to buy [...]
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Posted December 03, 2014in Your View
If I were a…
CivicSkinny’s afterthought — “If Chuck Grassley were a lawyer, Joni Ernst would not be a senator” got me thinking… If Washington had sons, he might have accepted that whole “monarchy in America” [...]
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Posted November 26, 2014in Your View
Reader enjoyed ‘Doing Time’
Great cover story last week (“Doing Time in Des Moines”). I enjoyed reading of this committed activist and the challenges he faced by choosing to serve jail time. After author Steve [...]
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Posted November 19, 2014in Your View
Mannheimer is a ‘shady personality’
Des Moines newspapers and magazines must have a yearly quota on the number of stories they do about the Des Moines Social Club. At least Cityview’s recent cover story, Social [...]
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Posted November 12, 2014in Your View
Very little has changed
If the phrase “all politics is local” is true, then despite the seemingly sweeping changes of the 2014 election, very little has changed in our own Iowa political landscape. When Iowa’s elected [...]
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Posted November 05, 2014in Your View
GOP may have lost Hispanic vote for future
One of the most important and controversial issues in the recent campaign was immigration reform, which has split the Republican Party down the middle with moderate Republicans supporting the Senate [...]
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