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Cityview is a weekly alternative newspaper serving the Des Moines, Iowa region in the United States.

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There’s more at stake in Iowa than brown lawns

1 week ago | dmcityview.com | Randy Evans

People living in central Iowa received a wake-up call last week that should drag water-quality back in front of the state’s 3.2 million residents. Iowa’s largest water supplier, one serving a fifth of the state’s homes and businesses, ordered its 600,000 customers to immediately reduce water demand by ending lawn-watering and cutting use in other ways. Such orders typically come during persistent drought when water supplies are short. This time, water is plentiful.
A modern day version of ‘Pride and Prejudice’

2 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Randy Evans

Stray Thoughts 6/9/2025Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” focused on manners and goodness, two virtues sometimes forgotten today. Shortly before the novel was published, our Founding Fathers settled on the free exchange of ideas as one of the fundamental concepts they wanted to guarantee in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Six degrees from the ‘Stairway to Heaven’

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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.
Mike Pace

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Kristian Day

Des Moines Forgotten 6/4/2025In 2009, I was an arrogant 24-year-old who was cutting my teeth in the film industry and getting to know the lay of the land in the Des Moines market. One name that came up constantly was Mike Pace. I even saw his name on a building that read “Mike Pace Enterprises,” which he would later tell me was just a desk and a telephone.
Sand urges Democrats to listen to other Iowans, not scold

3 weeks 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?
Custom-made

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Lindsey Giardino

Business Feature 6/4/2025In today’s highly competitive retail world, customer service can make the difference between keeping customers or losing them to a competitor. Businesses wanting to go the extra mile to satisfy their customers find ways to individualize their services, which may include customizing their products.
Dutch devotion belies message given to West Point grads

3 weeks ago | dmcityview.com | Randy Evans

If an opinionated old guy from southern Iowa delivered the recent commencement address at the United States Military Academy, my message would have contrasted with the one given by another opinionated old guy, one from Queens, N.Y., by way of the White House. When I was a newspaper editor, I sometimes told the staff they needed to run a belt sander across an article to remove rough spots before publication.
Supreme Court spikes an excuse for hiding public comment

1 month 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

1 month 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.