Jackson Pollock Mural worth $150 million (Civic Skinny, March 13)? Sell it. Build the $75 million Iowa City art museum. Then — like those art projects all over Iowa such as the giant Herkys in Iowa City, the giant ice crème cones in LeMars and the giant rabbit heads (?) in Council Bluffs
Read More →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 the most recent insults he calls President Obama a “communist,” “gangster” and a “subhuman mongrel.” There are two totally unacceptable
Read More →“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 of editorial vision into the future makes Mr. Magoo seem like a guy with 20/20 vision. Granted, there have been
Read More →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
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