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Dec
10
2019: The Year in Food (2)
2. 8-ounce top sirloin, Big Texan Steak Ranch, Amarillo, Texas (July 17) The Big Texan Steak Ranch is a Route 66 landmark. It’s the home of the 72-ounce steak challenge — but the fine print is, you have to eat the rest … Continue reading
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Dec
09
2019: The Year in Food (1)
In lieu of the trip reports I have not prepared for publishing, I shall spend the next few days regaling you of my adventures in gastronomy (well, adventures to me, anyway). They will serve as a shorthand of where I … Continue reading
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Dec
08
Good luck, Lucas
Lucas Grundmeier, my former Iowa State Daily and Des Moines Register cohort, has been named the Register’s opinion editor. I have yet to make peace with people around my age being in charge of things. (Like running a football team. Or … Continue reading
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Dec
06
Will Douglas Avenue get the three-lane treatment?
US 6 through the Des Moines metro area, and especially from Merle Hay Road to Altoona, can be a slog. But it remains an important corridor through Des Moines’ neglected north side. Unfortunately, the proposed solution for redevelopment of the … Continue reading
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Dec
05
End of an era for Iowa Public Television
(You can stop watching the above at the 1:50 mark.) Just after marking its 50th anniversary of serving Iowans, the “Iowa Public Television” name is going away. According to the December issue of Advance magazine, when the new year starts … Continue reading
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Dec
04
North Winn memorabilia given to Minnesota school district
July 25, 2016 If Laura Ingalls had lived in Burr Oak, Iowa, 130 years after she did, she would have been a student at North Winneshiek Elementary School. Unless, that is, being three miles from the Minnesota border, she went … Continue reading
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Dec
03
Traer clinic undergoes rebranding
First, the good news: Traer still has a doctor’s office. It’s still in the building from 1976 that I can still walk through in my mind. But on October 25, all remaining traces of the independent practice once called North … Continue reading
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Dec
02
The fallen and the rising
Towns that lost their only school building that I am aware of, 2010-19: Lineville, Stockport, Lost Nation, Menlo, Arcadia, Vail, Cincinnati, Crystal Lake, Lohrville, Mystic, Ringsted, Rippey, Ute, Denmark, Battle Creek, Hawkeye, Sabula, Titonka, Coggon, Walker, Boxholm, Clearfield, Dows, Elma, … Continue reading
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Nov
29
Matt Campbell’s Gundy Mitzvah
The Mike Gundy Bar Mitzvah, for those unaware of the term, is when a football coach becomes a man. (It can also be applied more broadly to well-humored male-identifying individuals.) Today, a day before Iowa State plays in the Little … Continue reading
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Nov
27
Combined, complete football playoff brackets for 2019
I shouldn’t have to do this. I don’t really have to do this. And yet, I do. This is, once again, my way of expressing extreme brow-furrowing at the IHSAA for being strange in how it goes about publishing finalized … Continue reading
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