What Do We Owe The Past?

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July 8, 2011
What Do We Owe The Past?

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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Friday Music: I Dream Of Chicago (Parlours)

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July 8, 2011
Friday Music: I Dream Of Chicago (Parlours)

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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DMR Blog: GOP Crusade Against the Environment

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April 17, 2011
DMR Blog: GOP Crusade Against the Environment

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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Parsing Clinton Census Data

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December 20, 2010

The New York Times has posted an interactive map of the 2010 Census data that encompasses every census...
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Lawrence of Arabia’s “Original Sin” in the Mideast.

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November 20, 2010

This complicated person is largely responsible for both the fundamentals of modern of guerrilla warfare as we see it...
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Friday Music: Futurebirds

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November 19, 2010

Futurebirds are from Athens, GA. Saw these guys at up at Codfish Hollow in the Biehl’s basement on Tuesday...
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Carthago Delenda Est

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October 25, 2010

From the Des Moines Register Politics Blog: “Carthage Must Be Destroyed.” During the Third Punic War, the Roman statesman,...
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Clinton

Clinton Core City Area Projected onto Chicago

The Challenges of a Shrinking City

I’ll expand on this later but in the meantime, there is a public forum today at the Eagle Point Lodge on the future of planning in the City of Clinton. There will be a number of breakout sessions and members of the public are encouraged to attend. Begins at 4:30. More in the Herald....

Technology

Could the iPhone be Made In USA? Could the iPhone be Made In USA?

One of the best technology reads last week was a New York Times’ big...

Doctorow: The Coming War on General Computing Doctorow: The Coming War on General Computing

In a perfect world, this talk by noted author and electronic liberty activist, Cory...

Whither Microsoft? Whither Microsoft?

The irrepressible, outspoken Barry Ritholtz has a quick post today regarding whether or not...

Why Information Security (And Security In General) Sucks Why Information Security (And Security In General) Sucks

He also makes what I think is a critical point about how 9/11 changed...


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