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Six degrees from the ‘Stairway to Heaven’

4 days ago | dmcityview.com | Jim Duncan

Feature Story 6/4/2025This month, the Italian American Cultural Center of Iowa (IACCI) breaks ground on a redesign of the majestic Butler Mansion.
Graziano Brothers - in the place where it all began

4 days ago | dmcityview.com | Jim Duncan

Food Dude 6/4/2025In 1903, brothers Francesco, 21, and Luigi, 17, Graziano left their Calabrian hometown San Morello to emigrate to the U.S. Like many Calabrians before them, and many more later, their way winded to Des Moines. They found jobs working for the Great Western Railroad until 1912.
Sand urges Democrats to listen to other Iowans, not scold

4 days ago | dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns

Political Mercury 6/4/2025Rob Sand knows the outcome at the polls next year depends not just on how Iowans respond to him, the gubernatorial candidate atop his ticket, but Democrat voters themselves. Do voters see everyday Democrats down the street as kind, reasonable and approachable, or hostile and impossibly entrenched?
Supreme Court spikes an excuse for hiding public comment

2 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Randy Evans

The Iowa Supreme Court gave citizen engagement and accessibility to public meetings a much-needed boost Friday in an appeal of a lawsuit against the Iowa City Community School District. The district’s practice of posting full videos of school board meetings on the internet for on-demand public viewing was at the heart of the case.
Why Iowa lawmakers merit an ‘F’ on consistency

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Randy Evans

You may be experiencing whiplash this spring just trying to track the Iowa Legislature’s zig-zag movements. It comes from what some might charitably call a lack of consistency on a key theme. A set of bills from the Republican majority at the Capitol illustrates this inconsistency. First, there’s the Legislature’s initiative banning the state universities and community colleges from promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in their admissions programs, hiring practices and academic programs.
A lawmaker’s blatant overreach as he ignores Iowa law

1 month ago | dmcityview.com | Randy Evans

Stray Thoughts 5/5/2025At least one member of the Iowa House appears to live by the mantra “Do as I say, not as I do” as he demands access to sensitive personal information and commands silence as he trolls for documents.
When Tiny Tim was in Des Moines

1 month ago | dmcityview.com | Kristian Day

Des Moines Forgotten 4/30/2025I am writing this on the Monday following Record Store Day weekend, and, with all honesty, I didn’t indulge this year. I’m already sitting on more than 2,000 LPs, which is enough wax to clog the arteries of a medium-sized city.
Los Laureles - it’s still the one

1 month ago | dmcityview.com | Jim Duncan

Food Dude 4/30/2025In 1989, CITYVIEW predecessor Skywalker began publishing the column “Since I Quit Drinking.” It was a take on the Rip Van Winkle legend that used new sobriety as awakening to surprisingly new things for one who had been asleep for decades. One early column focused on a new store at East 15th and Grand called La Tienda Mexicana.
Why Josh Turek is Iowa Democrats’ best candidate for U.S. Senate

1 month ago | dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns

Political Mercury 4/30/2025Many politicians can persuade you to believe in them. That’s a commonly reached feat. But the defining leaders, elected officials like Tom Harkin, Robert Ray, Henry Wallace and Harold Hughes, are able to summon the inspiration to get Iowans believing in themselves, their own worth and futures.
Soccer - The future is here, and now

1 month ago | dmcityview.com | Jim Duncan

Feature Story 4/30/2025It’s called “the beautiful game.” Soccer has been known as joga bonito since 1970 when Brazil’s national selection won the World Cup with “total football” teamwork that has been emulated ever since. No other sport is loved world-wide like the beautiful game. With its 90 minutes of constant movement, no other sport is as creative, nor accessible.