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 non-stop discussion over a Cityview cartoon by the ever-talented Brian Duffy. It depicted the forthcoming coronation of Hillary R. Clinton
Read More →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 ad campaign targeting Senate Candidate Bruce Braley here in Iowa? The Koch’s dirty tricks campaign is using misleading and exaggerated
Read More →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 state’s once-competent gazette of record will be a soggy dribble on the shag carpet of publication history. Attempting to delay
Read More →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 that one of his clients received (News of the Weird, Jan. 9). To help Mr. Wright understand what on Earth
Read More →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 pedestrian bridge. Go to KFMG’s website to see the week’s scheduling/offerings, or listen to the great variety of streamed music
Read More →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) that fit perfectly for his “running” for the race of U.S. Senator. We have been broadcasting for years with requests
Read More →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 daily spate of nearly unendurable depression. He morphed into a walking zombie. He felt indentured to his own helplessness. My pal
Read More →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 of Santa shopping at a Big Box store or, in any way, portrayed as “purchasing” his gifts. It made me
Read More →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 water supply system should not be used as a method to deliver fluoride. This is a matter of choice and
Read More →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 Eaton, who was previously bishop of the Northeastern Ohio Synod of the ELCA, is now the presiding bishop of the
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