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 19, 2014in Your View
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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Posted October 29, 2014in Your View
Good and hard
Reading Douglas Burns’ cautionary column (Political Mercury, Oct. 23) about the prospect of Joni Ernst actually getting elected to replace Tom Harkin reminded me of H.L Mencken’s assertion that “Democracy [...]
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Posted October 22, 2014in Your View
Ebola won’t wipe us out
Regarding Shirley MacDonald’s letter to the editor, Oct. 9: If the Black Plague could not wipe out the entirety of the human species, neither will Ebola. Julie Luepke –Windsor Heights [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Your View
Hold on
In his recap of the 1984 senate race between Roger Jepsen and Tom Harkin, non-columnist Michael Gartner reminds us that then Sen. Jepsen had “used a credit card at what was euphemistically [...]
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Posted October 08, 2014in Your View
Better than a hearing
Much attention had been on Bruce Braley missing hearings when he has a voting rate of 95 percent in Congress. What about Joni Ernst missing 36 percent of votes in [...]
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Posted October 01, 2014in Your View
What the Hull?
I was a little disappointed to see The Hull Ave. Tavern left out of your “100 favorite bars” list. As a musician who plays there, I can attest that they [...]
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Posted September 24, 2014in Your View
Blimey!
First Cooney’s Tavern is left off of Cityview’s checklist of 100 favorite bars. Then Braveheart’s own descendants vote to keep themselves under the rule of the Queen. Being 1/256th Irish and 1/512th [...]
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Posted September 17, 2014in Your View
Bender deserves credit, too
In the Sept. 11, 2014, issue of Cityview, Civic Skinny wrote a great article on our outgoing senator, Tom Harkin. Although Tom had the vision and the caring to help [...]
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