Ames Progressive

Why did Wolford fail to get any binding leases by Dec. 1, 2007 for his proposed development on East 13th Street?
The Ames Tribune reported December 7 that Bucky Wolford said his failure to obtain leases was due to:
1) “delays in getting the major site plan approved,”
2) the “unknown certainty of receiving approval for this project [...]

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Sue Dinsdale is an anti-war activist from Huxley and the Iowa director of the Iraq Campaign. Locally, the campaign is putting pressure on Congressman Tom Latham and Senator Charles Grassley, both Republicans, to change their positions on the war. To learn more go to www.noiraqescalation.org.
out rage (out’r¨¡j’) n.
American Heritage Dictionary
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It’s difficult to know where to begin when talking about the Coen Brothers’ new movie “No Country for Old Men.” First, it is a welcome relief to see that despite churning out 11 months worth of mostly drivel, Hollywood can still release a powerful, thought-provoking movie that avoids the clichés and achieves a cinematic [...]

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On Thursday the 13th of December, I awoke to hear the wormy, pencil-pushing commissioner of Major League Baseball, Bud Selig, assure everyone that peace had been preserved for our time. Wait, I’m confusing a contemporary bureaucrat’s misleading claim with one of the most damning statements of the 20th century – the one made by [...]

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The following is the full transcript of the Progressive’s interview with Ned Lamont. An abbreviated version appeared in the print version of Issue 2.3 as “A Quickie with Ned Lamont.”
Ned Lamont is the Connecticut businessman who challenged incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary of the 2006 midterm elections. Lamont, propelled by his progressive [...]

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On December 5, the Black Student Union at the University of Iowa announced its boycott of a popular locale in Iowa City, Brothers Bar and Grill. The boycott comes in response to photos posted on the bar’s website showing three men wearing blackface at the bar during a Halloween costume party. One photo shows a [...]

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Bolshevik tart
You smudged your revolution across the face of that boy.
You sent him stumbling out of the bar
Like a child scattering his sweat out of the ruined village.
Years after, he’d feel phantom pain in the center of his chest
when it rained or snowed
or broke out a few splinters of sunshine.
He’d feel your words like shrapnel.
You [...]

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A group is an army or a dissembling cause
&
A leader is a demagogue or the first defector
&
A cause is a leader or an army
&
Its employment is armed or vocalized
&
The wasps are an army
&
Their leader is a lung alive with air
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They don’t dissemble they assemble
&
Cohesion is the hand—always bite
the hand that feeds you if you’re hungry.

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1.
The mirror must forgive the face,
that the
razor may forgive the nose.
The wall must forgive the nail,
that the
mirror may forgive the face.
2.
The street must forgive the shoe
that the
shoe may forgive the foot.
The field must forgive the street
lest the
feet stampede the field
3.
The tooth must forgive the sweet
that the
mouth may forgive the tongue.
The mouth must forgive [...]

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There once was a word on a page
- a dead actor on a white stage -
that, touched by an eye
was enabled to fly
into meaning from out of its cage.

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