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• Youngstown’s Hollywood Connection

  
  Screenwriting from Iowa — Authority: 128
  Happy Thanksgiving.Before I take a circuitous route to point out yet one more connection between Youngstown and Hollywood let me first thank everyone for reading this screenwriting blog as it’s given me much encouragement in my quest to post daily. It’s not easy to write something original daily and finding odd ...
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• Thanksgiving Day events, movie showtimes, dining options

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Entertainment in Des Moines — Authority: 134
  Happy Thanksgiving! If you’re looking to cook, we can help with these turkey tips . If you’re not looking to cook, we can still help — here are some restaurants open today . After your Thanksgiving meal, take the family to watch a movie. Go to desmoines.metromix.com/movies for showtimes. The little ...
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• Des Moines Shows Largest Jump in Sales Over Last Year

  
  wealthwithmortgage.com — Authority: 127
  What’s The Real Estate Market Doing? Do you ever wonder how our real estate market is here in Des Moines? Unfortunately, we spend a lot of time listening to how rough things are in other cities around the country , but too often we don’t really consider what our real estate climate is like. I’m a fan of ...
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• Recap of Social Media Breakfast Des Moines

  
  Lava Row — Authority: 110
  The Social Media Breakfast movement kicked off in Des Moines yesterday morning with great conversation and a packed house (standing room only at Mars Cafe )! The topic of the day was the future of mobile technology, featuring panelists Daniel Shipton and Neil Roberts (Founders of Bitmethod ) and Dennis ...
  2 days ago

• Batman & Schevelle: Living Large In Iowa For Thanksgiving

  
  Tony Batman.com — Authority: 145
  The Day after Thanksgiving its the Big Earl’s F.A.T. Girls Dance Contest Friday Night in Des Moines and Saturday Night in Davenport   130 Miles from Iowa, USA – Big Earl’s [ www.bigearlsgoldmine.org ] clubs in Iowa are putting a new spin on Thanksgiving stuffing, with a new twist on the big, beautiful woman ...
  2 days ago

• Sarah Palin still an American political heavyweight

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New York, Nov 24(ANI): Recent polls and political analysis have suggested that former U.S. Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is still a political heavyweight.According to the Des Moines Register’s Iowa poll, as many as 68 percent of Iowa Republicans view Palin favorably. She also ranked higher than former ...
  3 days ago

• Vicious dog fee hike tabled

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Des Moines City Hall & Polk County Government — Authority: 132
  A proposal to hike fees to license so-called vicious dogs has been tabled by the Des Moines City Council. Council members tonight called for more public input and time to study whether the fees and other proposed changes to the city’s vicious dog ordinance would have worthwhile results. “The responsible dog ...
  3 days ago

• Tax abatement snag jeopardizes homeowners

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Des Moines City Hall & Polk County Government — Authority: 132
  Confusion over who should have filed a tax abatement application has put a northeast Des Moines couple at risk of losing their home. Tony and Cindi Jungweber tonight told City Council members they decided to buy their Springwood Lane home in 2007 largely because of a five-year tax abatement program the city offered. ...
  3 days ago

• Updated Night Photography of Sculpture Park and Downtown

  
  Living Downtown Des Moines — Authority: 112
  I was invited to come shoot some nighttime photography as part of the local Des Moines area Flickr Group. You can see most of my shots from this outing at: Downtown at Night Photo Album . You can check at all the participant’s photography by visiting: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1014797@N22/ or watching the ...
  4 days ago

• Who Lost the Heartland?

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 589
  “Use student achievement to measure teachers” is a catch-phrase or headline you might expect to hear or see working on education policy inside the beltway, but it wasn’t exactly what I expected to see waking up Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa. But, lo and behold, teacher evaluations were the focus of the front and ...
  4 days ago

• Back In The Dark Ages...

  
  Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications — Authority: 124
  Remember the "dark ages"?   Those years before the Internet?  We had big "yellow books" full of addresses and names and if you could figure out the category you could connect.  We had a choice of "where" to advertise and market ourselves.  If we wanted to break out of our "local trade area" we would buy all ...
  4 days ago

• More Living History Farms race

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Photography — Authority: 110
  How did you spend this past Saturday morning?  Me, I spent it with about 7,340 runners at the 31st Living History Farms off road race .  In case you never heard of it, but it is one of the most fun races of the year, where about 70% of participants run just for the fun of it, and many of them in some sort of crazy ...
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• Support The Highline Historical Society – Shop At Their Online Auction Thru Dec. 15th

  
  White Center Blog — Authority: 124
  The Highline Historical Society is holding an online auction fundraiser, which runs until Tuesday, Dec. 15th, and offers local restaurants, foods, trips and unusual experiences – all perfect gifts for the holidays, all the while supporting a great local cause. You can access the auction here: ...
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• Poll Watch: Des Moines Register Iowa Survey on Barack Obama

  
  race42008.com — Authority: 649
  Des Moines Register Iowa Survey on Barack Obama Do you approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president? Among Likely Voters Approve 46% Disapprove 49% Among Adults Approve 49% (53%) [64%] Disapprove 44% (41%) [29%] Do you approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is ...
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• Some tax credits will live and some will die

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 159
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Shortly after the film tax credit scandal broke in September, Governor Chet Culver promised a "comprehensive review" of all tax credits . On Thursday we learned more about how this review will be conducted. Recommendations are likely before the ...
  6 days ago

• Judge Denies Rubashkin Bail Bid

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 146
  The Des Moines Register reports :   A federal judge has denied Sholom Rubashkin’s request to be released on bail until he is sentenced on 86 financial fraud convictions. Chief Judge Linda Reade ruled that Rubashkin, the former vice president of Agriprocessors, Inc. poses an escape risk if released. ...
  6 days ago

• Million Med March: Iowans to participate

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 516
  In Des Moines to sound alarm of disastrous health care legislation DES MOINES, IA. -- Iowa medical professionals who warn that pending legislation to change America’s health care system will send costs soaring out of control while diminishing patient care will rally in Des Moines on Saturday to call attention ...
  6 days ago

• Adelman unlikely to endorse in at-large race

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Des Moines City Hall & Polk County Government — Authority: 132
  David Adelman, a former candidate in the at-large Des Moines City Council race, said today he is unlikely to endorse Leisha Barcus or Skip Moore ahead of the Dec. 1 runoff. Barcus and Moore were the top two vote-getters in the Nov. 3 election, but neither managed to capture enough votes to avoid a runoff. An ...
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• CIETC attorney stands up for Vlassis

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Des Moines City Hall & Polk County Government — Authority: 132
  I just received a letter from Jonathan Wilson, one of the attorneys hired to help clean things up after of the excessive pay scandal several years ago at the Central Iowa Employment and Training Consortium. In the letter, Wilson criticizes Halley Griess, who’s challenging Tom Vlassis for the Ward 1 City Council ...
  6 days ago

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