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So, let’s say we have a business in town; one of the city’s largest employers. In recent years they have spent tens of millions of dollars in improvements to their other facilities in town to make many of them state-of-the-art. But the company headquarters is located in an architectural landmark in the old downtown....
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I really liked the sadly short-lived Fox show The Chicago Code. And this little ditty from Des Moines band, Parlours was a fitting capstone to the Season One (and series) finale. Need to get these guys to Clinton or the Maquoketa Barn ASAP. Off to Chicago with the family for the day tomorrow. YAY!!
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Originally Posted at The Des Moines Register At least at an intellectual level I understand the GOP fixation with “reducing the regulatory burden on businesses,” and how that leads to wanting to slash environmental regulations. But that doesn’t explain some of what’s going on here. Under the category of actual good policy, Governor Branstad...
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Certainly the first three months of 2011 make it seem like all the subtle changes in our economies and societies that have been slowly happening underfoot have suddenly let go, just like the pressure along a fault line can release decades of pressure in a few minutes. But despite all of this, I'm...
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Frank Woodruff Buckles, (February 1, 1901 – February 27, 2011) was one of the last three surviving World War I veterans in the world, and was the last living American veteran of World War I. At the time of his death, Buckles was also the oldest verified World War I veteran in the world,...
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Unless you are say, late 30′s, mid 40′s (like me) then for you REM is some sort of oldies band; a few recent hits, but kind of like the Rolling Stones were for anyone my age. They were just there and not particularly relevant. But one has to remember that in 1983 these guys...
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Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer. "Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail," he said. "That's your whole story right there. Hell, you don't even have to write the rest of it. Just write...
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I guess this means we've survived another winter. At times like this it is good to muse on the wonderful turning of the seasons that make life in our part of the world so interesting. The rebirth of life in the Spring prompts us to begin to make future plans again, to...
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The Green Bay Packers play for the smallest metropolitan area not only in the NFL but in all of American professional sports. They are a community-owned, non-profit organization that has 11 league (conference) championships and three Super Bowls.
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