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Category Archives: Iowa Miscellaneous
Jun
03
City of Chopped Liver
May 29, 2017: Hint enough for you? “The Midwest,” for $1000, on Monday’s “Jeopardy!”: The name of this second-largest city in Iowa mentions a tree and alludes to a river. There are multiple cities in Iowa that mention a tree … Continue reading
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Apr
18
O’Brien County grant to bring bloggers
July 17, 2020: Paullina has a welcome sign with digital message board on the north end of downtown. O’Brien County, in northwest Iowa, has received a $5,300 grant from the Iowa Economic Development Authority. The county plans to use the … Continue reading
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Apr
13
Analysis of 2022 RAGBRAI route
The full RAGBRAI XLIX route map was released March 27. It is abundantly clear to me that the map was drawn with assistance from Google Maps, based on the absence of certain county road markers and especially the presence of … Continue reading
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Apr
07
Town of Hepburn to disincorporate
Hepburn, in Page County, the 932nd-largest town* in Iowa in 2020, is discontinuing its official existence. The Clarinda Herald-Journal reports that the process has been underway for months. The county will take over the streets and individuals will have to … Continue reading
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Mar
28
Census Bureau: Dallas County cracked 100,000
On April 1, 2020 — but not known for more than 14 months later — Dallas County’s official population was 99,678. It was a temporary snapshot before vaulting a threshold. Last week, the Census Bureau released its 2021 population estimates … Continue reading
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Mar
09
When a daily isn’t
At any point in the previous century this would have been earth-shattering news: The Des Moines Register is not going to print Saturday editions. Its last physical Saturday paper was March 5. Given developments over the past two years in … Continue reading
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Feb
28
Jeopardy contestants go 0-for-Iowa
Last Friday’s “Jeopardy!” had a collision of two of my favorite categories — college football and geography — with questions about the Big Ten Conference. (There was another college sports-related category just on Feb. 10, “Their Current College Conference.”) But … Continue reading
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Feb
09
A ‘demonym’ we all need to know
Clayton County Press-Journal, February 9, 1958: “Strawbareans” is a great word and I am fully in favor of bringing this term for the Clayton County town of Strawberry Point back into common use. (“Denonym” is the name of the word … Continue reading
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Feb
04
COVID claims Old Creamery
The Old Creamery Theatre, which would have celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, is now another casualty of COVID-19 in the arts. Its website is now an obituary. Old Creamery started in Garrison and then moved to the Amanas, and … Continue reading
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Jan
28
Hamburg Reporter got new owner
This happened four months ago, but worth a note: The Hamburg Reporter, in the southwest corner of Iowa, changed ownership. It had been a GateHouse paper, then a Gannett paper following the former’s purchase of the latter (but taking the … Continue reading
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