Author Archives: Jeff

Jan 10

Amy Klobuchar’s in a very exclusive club of very intelligent, learned people

Posted on Friday, January 10, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

(May not work in older browsers. Sorry.) Klobuchar shows off her ability to list all fifty states in 30 seconds! ???????? pic.twitter.com/9rgPnWHdLz — Behind 2020 (@Behind2020) January 8, 2020 “Have any of the other candidates do that?” she asks. No, … Continue reading →

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Jan 09

Sioux City defers Riverside Boulevard three-lane proposal

Posted on Thursday, January 9, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The three-lane bug has struck again, this time in Sioux City, on the southernmost part of IA 12 from Military Road to I-29. The Sioux City Council, at a meeting earlier this week, postponed any action until the end of … Continue reading →

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Jan 08

Hardin County Courthouse closes the front door

Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

April 4, 2006: This view of the stately Hardin County Courthouse in Eldora now needs a notice at the top of the steps: Please use side door. The Iowa Falls Times-Citizen (two paragraphs, anyway) and KLMJ/KQCR Radio report that starting last … Continue reading →

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Jan 07

A Reinbeck lawyer writes about rural life

Posted on Tuesday, January 7, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Or possibly the Reinbeck lawyer, Abby Wessel, wrote for the November 2019 issue of the Iowa Lawyer magazine: Reinbeck is a small but prosperous town situated upon what is arguably the best farmland in the state. Mike offered me a … Continue reading →

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Jan 06

Another Tower Terrace Road meeting

Posted on Monday, January 6, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The first public meeting of the new year is the third meeting in 26 months regarding I-380 in the Hiawatha area. The late 2017 meeting revealed plans for double diverging diamonds at Boyson Road and Tower Terrace Road; the second had … Continue reading →

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Jan 03

TV station coverage maps updated for the new decade

Posted on Friday, January 3, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Let’s say you are a presidential candidate. (Odds are you might be.) And let’s say you want to run the same ad at least twice every half-hour*. Since you’re mostly likely in that group with a percentage smaller than the … Continue reading →

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Jan 02

License Plate Letters — JAJ

Posted on Thursday, January 2, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Iowa entered the J series of license plates before 2019 ended. Of course, it was a blackout plate, because as this early December story from the Marshalltown Times-Republican shows, a lot of Iowans really, really, really hate the standard license … Continue reading →

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Jan 01

Imperial March of the Fates

Posted on Wednesday, January 1, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

I haven’t seen Episode IX yet — I’ve been waiting to get around to it until Rian Johnson was impeached for his high crimes and misdemeanors, or after today, whichever came first — but when I heard this happened, I … Continue reading →

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Dec 31

Sorry, kid

Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2019, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

It was 1995, and I was a dork. Now it is not 1995, and I am still a dork. (There was no college football championship at the time, and Iowa State certainly wasn’t doing anything bowl-worthy, so I took my … Continue reading →

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Dec 30

The decade in Iowa roads: Four-lane completions with a WTF cherry on top

Posted on Monday, December 30, 2019, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

November 4, 2019: From the Lincoln Highway in 2011 to the Jefferson Highway in 2019, Iowa’s scenic and historic byways received a more uniform, more visible signing scheme in the 2010s. Since the Second Great Decommissioning and completion of four-lane … Continue reading →

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