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Heavy rain last year prevented Dubuque’s Southwest Arterial from being completed. A story last week from KWWL (which I can’t embed) gives an update on the plans for this spring and summer. The concrete got laid, but completion will be … Continue reading →

On my Mediacom bill: Programming expenses, including sports and local broadcast stations like ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC are our fastest growing wholesale cost and have increased again for 2020. Because of this, the following monthly rates have been adjusted … Continue reading →

Oh, I’ll tell you what “mf” stands for here, that’s for sure. This issue is endemic to all Sousa marches, even “Stars and Stripes Forever.” Whee, sight-transposing! From “The Thunderer,” which the Marine Band says was Sousa’s wife’s favorite (PDF).

I read as much as I ever have, but most of it is article after article viewed online. Much of my reading is for information, for truth, and for insight based on information leading to truth. (LOL nothing matters.) My … Continue reading →

As seen in an actual commercial! (For Carmax, but still.) Welcome to the winter premiere in the fifth season of America’s inescapable reality show, “The 2016 Election.”  The 2020 election cycle is the first in five that I did not … Continue reading →

Before, states seeking to usurp Iowa and New Hampshire as the first-in-the-nation for primary cycles would move their elections forward in the calendar in a game of chicken. Now there’s a simpler, yet more insidious method: Early voting. Minnesota voters … Continue reading →

Am I living in one or are they living under one? From Wednesday. WATCH: Adam Schiff was an answer on "Jeopardy!" and none of the contestants knew who he was https://t.co/4A8AA2R1kW pic.twitter.com/a693uJV4kJ — The Hill (@thehill) January 16, 2020 If … Continue reading →

(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 →

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 →

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 →