DARTing questions
Funding conundrums lead to head scratching “Is DART fiscally unstable?” I ask. I’m on the phone with Elizabeth Presutti, the CEO of the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART). If [...]
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Posted January 31, 2018in Feature 3
Posted January 03, 2018in Feature 3
The food year in review
Someday food-loving people will remember 2017 as a year of discovery and gravitas in central Iowa. More things changed faster than in any year of my four decades covering the food scene here. The [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in Feature 3
2017 Des Moines’ most likeable people
A social networking contest and charity event For the second year in a row, we asked our readers who they thought were the most “likeable.” More than a popularity contest, the finalists were also asked [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Feature 3
It’s hip to reuse
Shoppers are digging the surge in local thrift stores Like sharks sensing blood in the water, bargain hunters circle the void as the empty blue basin is wheeled away by the [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Feature 3
Welcome to the jungle
Crowds are preparing to go Iowa Wild for the team’s fifth anniversary season On many occasions since arriving before the 2013 season, Iowa Wild President Todd Frederickson imagined what Wells Fargo Arena [...]
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Posted September 06, 2017in Feature 3
My Fantasy
Welcome inside the mind of an uptight CITYVIEW staff writer and fantasy football fanatic Most baby boomers remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was shot. Many in subsequent [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Feature 3
2017 Ultimate Chicken Challenge
Which local restaurant will be named king of the oldest, most revered and complicated food in world history? Each year CITYVIEW opens a contest to let our readers select the [...]
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Posted July 05, 2017in Feature 3
Iowa — land of 16 lakes
We may not be as aquatic as our neighbors to the north, but Iowa does have its share of ponds, reservoirs and lakes Go jump in a lake! Or is [...]
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Posted May 31, 2017in Feature 3
Unbridled Freedom
Who said diamonds are a girl’s best friend? There is a certain magic to motorcycles. There is an air of freedom, romance and rebellion. However, common societal views associate motorcycles [...]
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Posted May 03, 2017in Feature 3
Des Moines Style: What is it?
If there is such a thing, it has far more pride than it did 30 years ago All jokes, stereotypes and slurs that distinguish people according to where they come [...]
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