Posted October 24, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
The race between Congressional incumbents Leonard Boswell and Tom Latham must be close. Or, at least, the disbursing agents in Washington must think it’s close. Between Oct. 2 and Oct. 18, the national parties and political action committees poured more than $1.8 million into political advertising in the third district.
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Posted October 17, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
I remember as a little boy riding the streetcars that ran down the middle of Ingersoll. I remember riding the Crocker streetcar with my grandmother to the very end of the line — on the west lawn of Roosevelt High School. I remember riding the Urbandale streetcar that ran through
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Posted October 10, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Ousted Lincoln High football coach Tom Mihalovich says that “in 35 years of coaching, I have never cussed out a player. I have never used profanity toward an individual player.” It’s probably all in the definition of cursing. Maybe he doesn’t think “motherfuckers” is cursing. Or “Do your fucking job!”
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Posted October 03, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Quote of the week, or maybe the year, as reported by Jeff Eckhoff in The Des Moines Register: “My dad’s so tight you couldn’t pull a needle out of his butt with a tractor.” That was Diane Johnson, dismissing the idea that her father would have loaned former Polk County
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