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Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, August 14, 1920: Women go after House votes in Tennessee for a final show down Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 14 — “I do not believe that men of Tennessee will surrender honest convictions for political expediency or … Continue reading →

Due to circumstances extremely beyond our control, blog posts will be limited to those previously scheduled for a while. — The Management Zearing school demolition. Photo credit: Laurie Yocumk The three-story Zearing school building is being torn down this summer, … Continue reading →

The flyover ramp from northbound I-35/80 to IA 141 in Urbandale should be open by the end of this month, KCCI reported recently. (Like too many TV stations nowadays, unfortunately, I am unable to embed the video.) Lanes will be … Continue reading →

Story from WQAD.

Rene Carpenter, the wife of Mercury 7 astronaut Scott Carpenter during the Space Age, died Friday (obit: Washington Post). (She was born in Iowa, hence the very tenuous hook for this blog post.) I say “during the Space Age” because, … Continue reading →

I have in the past rambled about my late 2009 desktop iMac and how I was going to ride it until it died. Well, at 11:53 PM on June 15, it did. Specifically, the hard drive woke from sleep but … Continue reading →

Please stand by?

Washington Post: Is this goodbye to make-your-own waffles? Coronavirus may end the hotel breakfast as we know it. Los Angeles Times: At the budget end of the price spectrum, if you’re a regular guest at Hilton’s Hampton Inns, Cordell said, … Continue reading →

I’m doing a bit of house-cleaning/bug-squashing on my end, and looking for places to add photos that were never uploaded. So far, the most embarrassing issue is that I appear to have duplicated my work on photos from October 2014. … Continue reading →

About a month ago, after *gestures omnidirectionally* had really begun to sink in, I noticed that some of the “Jeopardy!” episodes I recorded seemed familiar. You’d think someone who routinely records “Jeopardy!” would be faster on the uptake, but it … Continue reading →