Monthly Archives: June 2013

Jun 18

Exira-EHK merger vote coming soon

A good article from the Omaha World-Herald with some basics about the merger process, benefits, and the pressure districts face. The most important factor in this case, though, may be the financial trouble the Exira district has been in recently.

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Jun 17

Another Dyersville interchange meeting

Still about the one to the southwest with US 20.

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Jun 15

The Des Moines Register moves

Stories from WHO and KCCI, along with the Register’s last editorial from the old building. This makes the second newspaper building I’ve worked in that has been abandoned.

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Jun 14

Royal Gorge fire in Colorado

August 5, 1995: Entrance to Royal Gorge park/tourist area. I presume this is in the area burned in the fire. Wildfires in Colorado have claimed the area around a major tourist attraction, Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado. The … Continue reading

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Jun 13

Hallie Christofferson, Iowa ambassador

Ames Tribune: “My roommates [at the Team USA tryouts] didn’t really know much about Iowa, so they were just asking a bunch of questions,” Christofferson said. “The topic came up about how I used to show pigs, so that took … Continue reading

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Jun 13

Chopped liver, as usual

Andy Staples fawns over Nebraska’s move to the Big Ten: If Nebraska and Oklahoma could somehow find a way to play an annual out-of-conference game, I’d bump this move to an A-plus. That was the best game in the Big … Continue reading

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Jun 12

Council Bluffs willing to take over IA 192

June 12, 2006: Even if IA 192 got decommissioned, the route would still work as a Business Loop I-29. This is the north end’s direct merge into the interstate. Council Bluffs is so desperate to get water and sewer work … Continue reading

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Jun 10

School closures and the Barker rules

The Iowa Department of Education has online the two dozen or so appeals about school closings since 1977. That year, the Iowa Department of Public Instruction created the “Barker rules”. In response to a case regarding the Van Buren school … Continue reading

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Jun 08

Double minority

According to Pew Research Center, 56% of all American adults now have a smart phone and 67% are on Facebook. Considering there are some people who fall in the latter category but not the former (and likely much more than vice … Continue reading

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Jun 07

Button copy in Indiana

July 7, 2008: I-64 in Indiana, four miles from the Kentucky state line. In other news, this picture is nearly five years old. (Sorry for the lack of stuff, been preoccupied.)

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