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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Aug
17
Sinclair stations staying on Dish
Good news for viewers of channel 2, 17, and 28.
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Aug
16
Crystal Lake runs out of students
July 6, 2011: School was already out forever for WCLT High school to zero in fifteen months. There aren’t enough kids to justify even a preschool. “We all hoped we could go another year, but the numbers just weren’t there,” said … Continue reading
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Aug
16
Not the typical Iowa high school
Waukee shows us what a district can do with an ever-growing tax base and a town population that is six times what it was in 1990 — not counting the other suburbs’ spillover. (Des Moines Register) Meanwhile, Ankeny opened its ninth … Continue reading
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Aug
16
This was required for Valley to join the SEC
West Des Moines beats Cedar Rapids to the punch with the second standalone Chick-fil-A in Iowa. Yes, I know the Chick-fil-A is technically in the Waukee district, not WDM. Details, details.
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Aug
15
Pull out the rabbit ears
Sinclair Broadcasting is about to yank its TV stations off a cable/satellite lineup again. This time, it’s Dish Network. It’s been five years since Mediacom actually lost the channels for a month, and that was from the middle of the … Continue reading
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Aug
14
Preston Station sale
November 29, 2002 When I was taking pictures of the George Preston Station in Belle Plaine in late 2002, George’s son Ron happened to be there. I hadn’t expected that, but I explained that I was taking pictures of the … Continue reading
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Aug
13
We might have seen one or two of them
Iowa TV markets rank Nos. 4, 6, and 7 for political ad saturation. On a semi-related note, President Obama’s cross-state trip this week will get him coverage in four of Iowa’s seven media markets (five if KTVO covers him in … Continue reading
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Aug
09
College conferences and House apportionment
(This is long and deals with the intersection of geography and football. You have been warned.) When Iowa State was on the verge of falling into athletics oblivion a year ago (again), I wrote in The Des Moines Register about … Continue reading
Aug
08
Aren’t you just the cutest little pirate
Polly wants a cracker — or Polly will use his hook! The Hudson school district has RSS and Twitter feeds. (Technically, the Twitter feed is the superintendent’s.) That’s one of many school districts that redirect from or don’t use the … Continue reading
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Aug
07
Brie? Gouda? Wensleydale?
The Des Moines Register looks around a really big Hy-Vee: The combined food store, restaurant, coffee shop, sushi bar, health store, take-out food department, cooking education station and cheese shop is housed in more than 95,000 square feet. It’s the … Continue reading
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