Nugent is the dirty ‘N’-word these days
The Duffy cartoon appearing in the Cityview (Feb. 27) features a wild-eyed Ted Nugent surrounded by several of his most outrageous and disgusting statements from the past. In one of [...]
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Posted March 05, 2014in Your View
Posted February 26, 2014in Your View
What’s an ISU poly-sci professor know, anyway?
“Good Governors will make the best presidents.” The headline from Cityview last week (Feb. 20) seems to intentionally bait readers for a response with its presumptive prediction stated as fact. This kind [...]
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Posted February 19, 2014in Your View
Uh, lady, remember how Hillary lost last go ’round?
This evening I was sitting in my favorite watering hole sipping a pint, when a man and his VERY chatty female date sat down next to me and began a [...]
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Posted February 05, 2014in Your View
Exposing Koch’s ugly ad campaign
The Jan. 16 Cityview, “Corruption and Greed,” featured unscrupulous people around the country. How about a focus on the billionaire Koch Brothers-funded group, Americans for Prosperity, and its massive negative [...]
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Posted January 29, 2014in Your View
The shame of shrinkage
Using objective numbers, Cityview has proven that Des Moines’ paper de jour (The Des Moines Register) is suffering readership shrinkage worse than Seinfeld’s George Costanza in a wet swimsuit. Soon the [...]
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Posted January 22, 2014in Your View
Should have gone to law school
Iowa lawyer Robert Allan Wright Jr. got a year-long suspension from the Attorney Disciplinary Board for using money from client accounts to pay up-front fees on a Nigerian inheritance letter [...]
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Posted January 15, 2014in Your View
Open your wallets
Downtown Des Moines has a couple of treasures that should get city residents to gladly open their wallets. Radio station KFMG 99.1 on the FM dial, and the Jackson Street [...]
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Posted January 08, 2014in Your View
Jacobs’ is a shoe-in
Doug Burns, Iowa newspaperman, asks in your Cityview issue of Dec. 19-25 “Will Jacobs’ Texas shoe fit Iowa?” Answer — most certainly! His wardrobe has multiple Iowa shoes (that’s plural) [...]
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Posted January 01, 2014in Your View
We need more stress doctors
Nearly three months ago my best friend got hit by a salvo of stressed-induced insomnia. Two or three hours of shut-eye a night was average. It soon mashed him into a [...]
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Posted December 25, 2013in Your View
Making me believe again
Thank you for your article, “Santa’s Secrets” (Dec. 12). The commercial versions of Santa have, lately, made me hate all things Santa. I especially cringe when I see television commercials [...]
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