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Aug 12

Iowa adds online specialty plate applications

Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2014, at 12:10 PM by Jeff

Previously, Iowans looking for vanity (or as they like to call them now, “personalized”) and specialty license plates could look online and even type characters in to see how it would look, but couldn’t finish the process or see if … Continue reading →

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Aug 12

Muscatine renames short street, seeks reclassification of old IA 92

Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2014, at 10:20 AM by Jeff

Last week’s Muscatine City Council meeting included two items of interest for map geeks. One was renaming a short stub of Cherry Street near Eighth Street to Juniper Street, and it looks like Google is already on it, which comes … Continue reading →

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Aug 11

Tama County got presidential disaster declaration

Posted on Monday, August 11, 2014, at 10:40 AM by Jeff

President Obama notified the governor’s office Aug. 5. The Tama News-Herald/Toledo Chronicle website notes the declaration is “in response to significant damage that was caused by severe weather that produced damaging winds, tornadoes, heavy rains, hail, and thunderstorms beginning June 26 … Continue reading →

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Aug 10

This weekend’s important anniversary

Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2014, at 2:00 PM by Jeff

Morrisons celebrate 40th anniversary What, you thought I was talking about Richard Nixon?

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Aug 09

Those roided-up monsters are not Ninja Turtles

Posted on Saturday, August 9, 2014, at 10:37 AM by Jeff

(Detouring from highways and Iowa coverage because this is important, darn it.) Michael Bay’s latest salvo in his war on 1980s-early ’90s childhoods hits theaters this weekend. I am old and not in the target demographic anymore, I get that. … Continue reading →

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Aug 07

100th anniversary of Tama County Indian powwow

Posted on Thursday, August 7, 2014, at 2:58 PM by Jeff

The centennial celebration of the Meskwaki (Mesquakie) Indian Powwow on the settlement west of Tama starts today and goes through this weekend.

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Aug 06

Independence high school building deal falls through

Posted on Wednesday, August 6, 2014, at 9:54 PM by Jeff

It would cost 10 times as much to refurbish the Independence High School complex than demolish it, the city says, and so it won’t even buy the building and land for $1. The Independence school district opened a new high … Continue reading →

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Aug 05

Centennial Bridge closed for a month

Posted on Tuesday, August 5, 2014, at 10:19 AM by Jeff

The US 67 bridge across the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities is closed for a month — until the weekend after Labor Day. The story below from WHBF* goes into the problems of trying to use the Arsenal (or … Continue reading →

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Aug 04

Branstad’s ad buy isn’t just for Lee County

Posted on Monday, August 4, 2014, at 10:30 AM by Jeff

The Des Moines Register has found out a curious political-television item (bottom item) in the 2014 Iowa governor’s race: Gov. Terry Branstad’s campaign bought ad time in the Quincy-Hannibal-Keokuk market. Technically, Lee County is the only Iowa county in this … Continue reading →

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Aug 02

Chelsea Sesquicentennial

Posted on Saturday, August 2, 2014, at 11:19 AM by Jeff

July 7, 2013: The backside of the “Vitame Vas do Chelsea” welcome sign is friendly, too. The white pickup can turn right on V18 or go straight ahead on the Lincoln Highway. Chelsea, the often-flood-beleaguered Tama County stop on the … Continue reading →

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