Update: In June, the Ames city council declined to give Lane4 more time to come up with a workable plan for Campustown redevelopment but said that the city may approach the Kansas City development company in the future. Campustown needs some love. But it does not need to be demolished in order to be improved. [...]

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Update: In June, the Ames city council declined to give Lane4 more time to come up with a workable plan for Campustown redevelopment but said that the city may approach the Kansas City development company in the future. It’s clear that our Campustown needs work. Regardless of your stance on the current situation with LANE4, [...]

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Update: In June, the Ames city council declined to give Lane4 more time to come up with a workable plan for Campustown redevelopment but said that the city may approach the Kansas City development company in the future. There are many problems evident concerning LANE4 and the revitalization of Campustown. However, I would like to [...]

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Update: In June, the Ames city council declined to give Lane4 more time to come up with a plan for Campustown redevelopment but said that the city may approach the Kansas City development company in the future. I really would have enjoyed having a movie theater by campus. I’m kind of disappointed that at no [...]

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Update: In June, the Ames city council declined to give Lane4 more time to come up with a workable plan for Campustown redevelopment but said that the city may approach the Kansas City development company in the future. It is not necessary to tear down blocks’ worth of buildings in Campustown in order to improve [...]

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A new non-profit organization that was established earlier this year in downtown Ames, below Downtown Deli on the southwest side of Main Street, is working to make our community a little more handmade. Called the Ames MakerSpace, the organization is an instance of a “hackerspace.” A hackerspace is a place for people to work on [...]

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This is a short piece about waste management in the City of Ames. Not a sexy topic, but one that comes up in conversation with surprising frequency. Sometimes I will say something like, “I can’t believe the city thinks that burning trash is ‘renewable energy.’ I mean, sure we keep making more of it, but [...]

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The following article was originally submitted as a letter to the editor of The Tribune on August 22 but never published (the paper had previously covered the issue, however). Soon after, the Squaw Creek trestle was demolished over a period of about two weeks. During the recent flooding in Ames I walked down my street [...]

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On the T-Galaxy building at 206 Welch Avenue, a blank wall stands as a symbol of the area. Though it once looked out on a thriving community, it now faces a scene of empty storefronts, bars, and a strip club. Fortunately, Ames has so much more to offer than these sordid diversions. Beneath the chipped [...]

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Union Pacific Railroad and the City of Ames are engaged in an ongoing series of negotiations to determine the fate of the Squaw Creek Bridge, know locally as the Dinkey Bridge, which runs parallel to 6th Street, east of the Iowa State campus. The bridge is an iconic landmark in Ames. The Dinkey was a [...]

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