by Art Smith
*** This post will be updated and will be kept as a sticky at the top as major flooding events in Des Moines occur. *** Downtown Des Moines is still contained, although other parts of the city have begun flooding more extensively as water from Saylorville Lake...
by Art Smith
From KCCI-TV’s Web Site: DES MOINES, Iowa — Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama is canceling a scheduled trip to Cedar Rapids. Obama had planned to hold an economic forum on Wednesday morning. The stop was part of a two-week economic tour....
by Art Smith
I received a letter from Newt Gingrich today (along with every other delegate to the Iowa Republican State Convention this coming weekend). The primary purpose of the letter was to promote the organization Gingrich started in 2007 called American Solutions. I’m...
by Art Smith
Got the high-speed running again, and we’re all very happy here! I can’t say the same for everyone in town. We continue to have flooding throughout the state, and water levels are rising around Des Moines. The local AAA baseball park is at the confluence...
by Art Smith
If you don’t see any other posts for a day or two, it’s just that our internet access is down. We had some kind of outage that should be repaired sometime Monday, but it might be Tuesday before you see anything substantive. Sorry about that. (had to use a...