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 08, 2014in Your View
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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Posted December 18, 2013in Your View
Pubic water supply should be fluoride-free
The League of United Latin Americans of Iowa is calling on Des Moines Water Works to eliminate fluoride from the public drinking water supply (“Troubled Water?” Dec. 5). The public [...]
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Posted December 11, 2013in Your View
Ode to Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, too
Thank you for your article, “Women of the Cloth” (Nov. 28). I would like to add another event that happened in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America this year. Elizabeth [...]
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Posted December 04, 2013in Your View
Sabbaticals are almost laughable
After reading “Sabbaticals:…” (Civic Skinny Nov. 28) and the projects approved by the Board of Regents, I have the same question I have often wondered about the meetings that “Family Guy” [...]
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Posted November 27, 2013in Your View
Nevermind the Nollens
With essentially no public input, resistance or outcry of the arbitrary renaming of Nollen Plaza to Cowles Commons, can the selling of naming rights for our city high schools and [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Your View
If Sarah Palin thinks the Pope is too liberal, wait till she meets Jesus
Now that Gov. Sarah Palin has been here (she was a featured speaker at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 13th Annual Family Banquet) and made her now famous remark [...]
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Posted November 13, 2013in Your View
Lois Bright provided ‘a profound legacy’
I think you have broken my heart with your writing about Lois Bright (Civic Skinny, Nov. 7). I wish I would have known her. But I feel maybe I do. [...]
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Posted November 06, 2013in Your View
Money in politics is scary
After reading the Cityview fact-checker article (Civic Skinny, Oct. 31), let me see if I understand this correctly. If I gave large sums of cash (more than $2.99) to a [...]
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