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Author Archives: Jeff
Dec
17
License Plate Letters — BYJ
It looks like a race with the calendar to see if the B’s are exhausted before the new year.
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Dec
15
Logo similarity
The website for WDAM in southern Mississippi uses this logo on the bottom of the page (the NBC logo is absent in the header): (wdam.com) That bears an uncanny similarity to what KWWL used earlier this century, but currently does … Continue reading
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Dec
13
Iowa DOT wants to close interstate rest areas
I don’t have time for a full-fledged writeup about this important issue at this time, but here are some links: Iowa plans to close some rest stops (Des Moines Register) Plan to close rest stops worries truckers (Des Moines Register) … Continue reading
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Dec
13
Another rant against ESPNU
Friday is first Iowa-Iowa State men’s basketball game in a quarter-century where both teams are ranked — but unlike Lafester Rhodes’ command performance of 1987, many Iowans are not going to be able to watch. It’s not (just) because of … Continue reading
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Dec
12
Grand Avenue bridge reopens
Closed nine months for construction, the bridge just east of 1st/63rd Street is finally open less than two weeks before Christmas. Three of the planned five four lanes will be open. (Des Moines Register) This post has been edited.
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Dec
12
Iowa State FB should play at Northwestern in 2020
I know the athletic departments won’t go for it, but I’m going to suggest and write about it anyway: Iowa State should set up a home-and-home with Northwestern in football, playing in Evanston in 2020 and Ames in 2022. Why? … Continue reading
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Dec
11
New Lincoln Highway kiosks in Cedar Rapids
KWWL has three paragraphs, but the story notes that these are the last kiosks to be placed in Linn County. A different website has a 19-photo slide show of national Lincoln Highway pictures.
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Dec
10
MN 60 four-lane opens south of I-90
Happened Nov. 22, according to KIWA Radio of Sheldon. The road is now four lanes from Sioux City to Worthington, with three infernal roundabouts in the latter. The MN 60/US 59 intersection is now built so the four-lane is the … Continue reading
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Dec
09
An ambitious plan to raise US 63 in Waterloo
The Iowa Department of Transportation in recent years has put forth reconstruction plans for US 63 north of downtown Waterloo. The section in the vicinity of a railroad underpass had its own plan. Now we know what that plan is … Continue reading
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Dec
07
The worst Big 12 team of the ’90s and ’00s just won a championship
Baylor has its first outright conference title since 1980. Baylor had the most conference losses of any Big 12 team in the 1990s (1996-99) and 2000s (2000-09). The Bears’ championship comes two years after the Big Eight’s worst team of the … Continue reading
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