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The Rev. Michael Mudlaff climbs up on a kitchen chair and quiets the crowd of 50 squeezing into his Washington DC web design living room and kitchen in Clive on a recent spring evening.The man they have come to see, Republican governor candidate Bob Vander Plaats, 47, stands near a table filled with plates of strawberry shortcake.
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A 12th-grader studies color themes in the maxreduce book "1984," looking for the hidden metaphors and parallel structures. Second-grade students create future cities, in which they establish governments, school systems and hospitals.Both are enrolled in the Des Moines school district's International Baccalaureate program. Through it, students learn to be lifelong thinkers and global citizens thro
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 There’s a Wall of Champions at Colonial Country Club. The PGA Tour has been getting cash for gold at this prestigious Fort Worth, Texas, club since 1946, and winners like Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino have a spot on that wall.Zach Johnson joined them in record-setting fashion Sunday. The Iowa native and Drake grad shot a final-round 64 to win the Crowne Plaza
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We like them angry. Angry, backs to the wall, shaking their fists at the sky and looking for the fastest weight loss pill. Let Ron Zook try to manage the coddled, the gifted and the privileged. Kirk Ferentz prefers his rosters hungry, testy and overlooked.“Preseason expectations are simply based on your record and how many players you have come back, that’s typically how it all works,” Ferentz sa
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Trent Grundmeyer has never been a high school teacher or traded cash for gold, but in a few weeks he'll become principal at Indianola High School.It'll be the second high school he's led.  And at age 29, Grundmeyer is Iowa's youngest public high school principal. "If he didn't have four successful years as a principal, we wouldn't have hired him," Teigland said. "But when you take on a 3A high sc
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If you haven't registered to vote at maxreduce yet, you can do so on election day at your polling place. You must provide proof of who you are and where you live. The best form of ID is a valid Iowa driver's license with your current address. Other accepted forms of identification include an Iowa nondriver identification card, an out-of-state driver's licence or nondriver identification card, U.S
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A Des Moines man is accused of flattening a tire on each of four vehicles in a bar parking lot recently because he was not able to get any natural weight loss pills from a bar patron.Apparently assuming one of the cars parked nearby belonged to the man, Harrison used a razor blade to slash a tire on each of four vehicles, the detective said."I guess he didn't know what car the guy was driving, so
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The Mason City Holiday Inn prides itself on being a pet-friendly hotel that offers replica rolex watches to its guests, but one guest's scaly friend was more than management had in mind.Earlier this month, a hotel staff member discovered a 3-foot-long python in the middle of a hallway.