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 29, 2014in Your View
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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Posted September 10, 2014in Your View
Register editor: ‘content coach’
[Cityview’s Civic Skinny column on Sept. 3 about changes in the newsroom at The Des Moines Register] contains several errors…. In terms of the process, decisions will NOT be made [...]
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Posted September 03, 2014in Your View
Lapping it up
I am the first to admit that I have no expertise in print advertising, and at 57 years of age I may not be the intended target audience, but did [...]
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Posted August 20, 2014in Your View
Don’t make me come over there
OK, Cityview, what’s up with the tits issue? You can’t honestly tell me you’ve run out of sacred-cow news to break in this town. If you wanted to go on [...]
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