Mr. Hsu, Mrs. Clinton, and Winkle Paw – campaign finance investigation seems likely
(hat tip to Captain’s Quarters Blog.)
8/29: Updated to add – Hsu’s a fugitive!
8/30: Updated to add – Clinton, et al dropping Hsu like a hot potato! (What’s to become of Winkle Paw??)
The Wall Street Journal is reporting a story that may not go away any time soon for Hillary Clinton. Of course, it’s possible there are NO shenanigans [...]
Five Questions With… Heather Manning
Five Questions With… is a weekly series on DMweblife highlighting Des Moines area bloggers and their blogs! This edition features Heather Manning of Designs by Heather Manning, a blog that’s part family-oriented and part promotion for Heather’s scrapbooking business.
1. What’s the focus of your blog?
My blog serves a variety of purposes. It lets my customers [...]
Legal Tender in Liberia and Palau
We were watching a program on Court TV Sunday night and up popped a commercial for the “Corvette Dollar,” the latest release from the National Collector’s Mint. I’m assuming that these types of things have to be considered legal tender in some country to be marketed as “coins,” and whenever I see these commercials I look [...]
Five Questions With… Sherry Borzo
Five Questions With… is a weekly series on DMweblife highlighting Des Moines area bloggers and their blogs! This edition features Sherry Borzo of dsmBUZZ.com, a website that’s devoted to encouraging people to shop with locally owned and operated businesses.
1. What’s the focus of your blog?
The primary purpose of dsmBUZZ is to encourage consumers to [...]
Five Questions With… Christi Jensen
Five Questions With… is a weekly series on DMweblife highlighting Des Moines area bloggers and their blogs! This edition features Christi Jensen of small.town.fun, who is a busy mom with lots of ideas for things to do (activities, places to visit, etc.) with your kids. After exchanging several emails with Christi, I must say I [...]
Cardboard kids force traffic to slow down
Despite the fact that the speed limit on our street is 25 mph, we daily see cars zooming from one end to the other at speeds in excess of 60 mph. We call the police, they run radar for a couple days, and when they leave the problem returns. A two-way stop sign placed at [...]
The evils of bottled water: it’s not the ‘tap water’ that’s a problem
My family and I have long joked about how the bottled water display in the grocery store is probably hooked up to a regular old tap water faucet, and Aquafina’s recent announcement suggests that we might be on target.
So you can probably imagine a little of what was going through my mind when I read [...]
Five Questions with… Pete Basso
Five Questions With… is a new weekly series on DMweblife highlighting Des Moines area bloggers and their blogs! This edition features Pete Basso of the Pete Basso blog, dedicated to Pete’s love of cycling and commitment to his family.
1. What’s the focus of your blog? (Or if you’d rather, What’s the main reason you began [...]