Steve & Barry’s, East Village Books open this week; East Village Market, Maytag closing
Steve & Barry’s, a discount clothing store where everything costs under $20, opened at the west end of Southridge Mall this morning. I think the mall is pinning some hopes on this store. (The mall has free wi-fi, too!)
And, East Village Books opens at 5 p.m. Friday at 510 East Locust St. Opening day festivities [...]
Directional sidewalk medallions: way-finding helpers for downtown?
WOW - these directional sidewalk medallions are a really cool idea… I realize we don’t have people coming up out of subway stations, but I’ll bet some of our busier pedestrian-trafficked intersections (or major bus stops?) could use something like this to point the way after stepping off the bus or approaching the crosswalk! They’re very [...]
Vote for your favorite video, maybe win cash!
Visitors to the Greater Des Moines Partnership website can vote for their favorite entry in the “Digital Do More Challenge,” and be entered in a random drawing for a $500 cash prize. The Digital Do More Challenge is a video contest which asked area residents to produce videos showing why they like to live and [...]
Benefit motorcycle ride 10-20-07
What a perfectly beautiful day on Saturday, 10/20! I spent the day participating in a benefit ride and pot luck supper for a friend who was in a motorcycle accident back in early September. Nearly 300 bikes and more than 500 people attended. If you were at the Downtown Farmer’s Market as it was wrapping up, you probably saw [...]
Brooks pleads guilty; what is the cost?
I was reading about former City Councilman Archie Brooks’s newly minted guilty plea, and a few folks on the Register’s website were commenting about how he had done a lot of good for the community over the years. They were rebutted immediately by those who believed that Brooks’s apparent breaches of the public trust far [...]
Hot for ‘08: Your key state issue for 2008
In my day job, I work for an organization that does some political lobbying at the state level. We spend a lot of time each fall surveying those who are interested in our work to find out what issues are on their minds, and what their positions are on those issues, to develop our annual [...]
Iowa Author’s Dinner honors McPherson, Carey, Shors & Kruidenier
I’ve been meaning to do a write-up of an event I recently attended that simply doesn’t get enough “press”: The Iowa Authors Dinner.
The Iowa Authors Dinner is an annual event which is hosted by the Des Moines Public Library Foundation. The dinner recognizes and celebrates the talent of Iowa authors and raises funds for the [...]
A bit of poetic injustice
Have you ever misplaced your cell phone and used another phone to dial your number, hoping your cell phone’s ring will give away its location? Yeah, me too. Well next time you try that trick, remember this poor guy - who got told to stop calling his own number - by the people who mugged [...]
The Four Mile Creek Sweep Needs You!
Volunteers are needed to help with clean-up along Four Mile Creek on Saturday, October 20, from 9 a.m. - Noon.
Volunteers may choose to clean up the trail, stream banks or creek in one of four locations in the Four Mile Creek Watershed: Des Moines, Ankeny, Pleasant Hill, Altoona. Participants should dress for the weather, bring work [...]
Republican Caucuses moved to January 3, 2008
The Republican Party of Iowa has officially moved its caucuses to January 3, 2008. The Democratic Caucuses remain on January 14. I don’t know how this will affect the media reporting center that the two parties were planning to share; I do think the Iowa GOP is going to have its work cut out for [...]
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