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5 minutes with ‘Oppenheimer’ (or a single sentence) to become a better storyteller
Never underestimate the vast energy that can be unleashed through story structure.
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An Iowa bicycle booster changes lanes after 20 years of pedaling and peddling to grow the culture.
Mark Wyatt and the Iowa Bicycle Coalition predate Facebook and the iPhone in a world where two wheels are more popular than ever.
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We had a Grand time at 1501 while it lasted.
One shabby street corner can make a big difference in civic culture.
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Varsity Cinema returns to help screen out the noise.
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On historic indictment day, Bob Woodward hears the echo from Nixon to Trump.
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Paying for local news—or the lack of it
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6 habits to be a better neighbor, courtesy of the Lyceum Movement
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Salomone brought us together as one city under a groove
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A century of support for bicycling Des Moines streets
From a big bike parade in 1923 to a modern culture that just keeps rolling
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A good-news story about newspapers
Small-town editor out in Denison, Iowa at traditional newspaper — so he joins the Spanish newspaper as it expands coverage of historic, emerging…
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On historic indictment day, Bob Woodward hears the echo from Nixon to Trump.
The Watergate-era journalist spoke April 4 in Des Moines as presidential history unfolded in New York.
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Paying for local news—or the lack of it
City council minutes and school budgets add up in the equation of maintaining a free press.
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Side streets: A folksinger, a podcast, a photographer, and a backlog of books
I should be catching up on my reading, but instead I wrote this.
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50 years ago, he was among the few to finish the first RAGBRAI.
The world's dominant bicycle touring ride began in 1973 as a happy accident--as Stephen Gaul can attest.
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6 habits to be a better neighbor, courtesy of the Lyceum Movement
The old-fashioned notion of public conversation feels like a smart modern plan for the future of healthy communities.
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