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Nov 30

Iowa State-Drake preview

Posted on Friday, November 30, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Tomorrow, doe-eyed innocents will be sacrificed to the cheers of crowds wearing camo and blaze orange. It’s also the first day of deer season. I suspect a lot of hunters who are also ISU fans aren’t happy about the game … Continue reading →

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Nov 29

Post-Thanksgiving work on Ames flyover bridge

Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The Iowa DOT is doing nighttime closures of US 30 at I-35 to place beams overhead for the new flyover ramp, Radio Iowa reports. As both IPR and an earlier blog post note, this was supposed to be done by … Continue reading →

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Nov 28

Iowa State’s latest football game in Ames

Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Iowa State has never played football in January. (The latest, chronologically? The New Year’s Eve 2009 Insight Bowl that had a night kickoff in Tempe.) And Iowa State has never played a regular-season game in the state of Iowa in … Continue reading →

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Nov 27

IA 100 ribbon cutting Saturday

Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

2018 will get the completion of not one, but two major Iowa highway projects that were decades in the making. The completed IA 100 beltway around western Cedar Rapids will have a celebration Saturday, the Gazette reports. There will be … Continue reading →

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Nov 26

2018 Iowa high school football playoff brackets

Posted on Monday, November 26, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Given the Iowa High School Athletic Association’s tinkering with the postseason football format again, I thought, Maybe they’ll figure out how to put complete brackets on the website. I’m pretty sure this used to happen, even if it was either … Continue reading →

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Nov 23

Iowa State-Kansas State preview

Posted on Friday, November 23, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Iowa State beat Kansas State in back to back games in the two years before Snyder the Grey departed. Iowa State has never defeated Snyder the White. As of now, Manhattan is the site of ISU’s longest conference road win … Continue reading →

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Nov 21

An Iowa State Thanksgiving

Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Right?

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Nov 20

License Plate Letters — HHH

Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

May 8, 2007: The now-departed Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis, seen in a trip to Winnipeg and the Upper Midwest that incidentally included domed stadiums in four states. Haven’t done one of these in a while, but I … Continue reading →

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Nov 19

Dolliver post office closed

Posted on Monday, November 19, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

September 29, 2015: Downtown Dolliver, in the middle of a weekday. The post office is the white-and-blue building on the right. The post office in tiny Dolliver closes today, according to a Des Moines Register story citing a USPS press … Continue reading →

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Nov 17

Iowa State-Team Trampled by Turtles preview

Posted on Saturday, November 17, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

A certain team that thinks it rules its empire likes dressing up as stormtroopers, so… (This one’s in Austin. Allegedly. If a game airs on the Longhorn Network, does it really happen?)

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