A friend asked a question recently about Des Moines University, the osteopathic medical school at 3200 Grand Ave. that will spend up to $200 million in the next three years to build a new 88-acre …
When I moved to Des Moines in 1975, there weren’t a lot of lunch places downtown beyond the three established dining clubs.
Each club had a niche.
The Des Moines Club, organized in the late …
A long-forgotten piece of Des Moines history is retold on Pages 811-812 of Ron Chernow’s biography about Civil War General and 18th president of the United States Ulysses S. Grant.
Chernow’s 1,074-page “Grant” was published …
Twenty-one years ago this week, I wrote about the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in an article that carried the headline “So far, Dow not fazed by Clinton crisis.”
The purpose was to see how …
Many of us have stories about things we’ve seen or heard in Des Moines’ skywalks.
My story happened 20 years ago when I was business editor of the Des Moines Register and took a job …
From half a block away I could tell something was bothering my friend K.C. The closer he came, the more animated he got.
“What are they thinking?” he asked when we met in front of …
Farming and insurance are at opposite ends of the risk-taking spectrum, which makes it interesting that Iowa’s status as an insurance capital is rooted in the state’s agricultural heritage.
Farming is, and always has been, …
The House impeachment hearings a week ago contained several unexpected twists, including the fact that three key witnesses were first-generation immigrants.
All were career government officers: Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, born in Canada to parents who …
Modern agriculture has bred so much nutrition out of fruits and vegetables that “we are left in the bizarre and paradoxical situation that we are essentially the world’s most overfed nation but also one of …
It’s easy to see unethical behavior in the past, Stanford University’s Martin Hellman will argue next week when he delivers the Robert Stewart Distinguished Lecture at Iowa State University. Slavery was wrong, as was denying …
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