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Category Archives: Iowa Miscellaneous
Apr
28
Really delayed spring cleaning
OK, so some of the info from this month-old post is outdated, but the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative additions list is important, and it’s another picture from Pi Day in Springville. (Me? A procrastinating mess? Never.)
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Apr
21
Swan to disincorporate
September 30, 2014: Swan, in far northwest Marion County, was bypassed by the state highway system when what today is IA 5 was realigned in 1928. The IA 316 bridge over the Des Moines River at Runnells was decades in … Continue reading
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Apr
14
Pi Day, delayed
Pie is always in season, not just March 14! Pi Day in Springville is a local holiday.
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Apr
14
Colona-oscopy
In Sunday’s print Des Moines Register, on the “Around the State” page, there was this curious item: In a page that is about stories from the state of Iowa, the Register ran a brief from a city in ILLINOIS — … Continue reading
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Apr
01
Windsor Heights got a Casey’s
You might think that news about a Des Moines suburb getting another gas station isn’t too notable, but in this case, I found something. Land was cleared last fall for a Casey’s at the northeast corner of University Avenue and … Continue reading
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Feb
24
Watching TV is so hard nowadays
About a month ago, Mediacom shut off its unencrypted cable signal. That means my favorite way to watch TV — on the computer — couldn’t work with cable anymore. Ironically, even as I write this now, the signal to my … Continue reading
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Feb
17
Headline goes here
January 8, 1883, was the last Monday that residents of Cedar Rapids didn’t have a hard-copy newspaper sold at stores or delivered to their doorsteps. Until today. Tuesday will be 600 days since I lost my job there.
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Feb
14
Remember January?
Like I said, and say at the opening of the short-takes piece below, it’s been … yeah.
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Jan
30
Meteorologists staying on at KWWL
When news of what Allen Media was planning to do to local weather desks across the nation got out, the reactions were all the same, and all bad. Even though the move had not been announced publicly, the rumble was … Continue reading
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Jan
23
Noting correction to 2023 news graphic
I’m not going to redo my graphic from 2023 about newspaper frequency, but since the information that one line is inaccurate has come to light, I need to acknowledge it. In May 2022, the Ames Tribune announced that at the … Continue reading
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