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Tag: Juice
“Dear Cityview…” July 19, 2006
When Juice premiered in 2006, there was a lot of criticism about the publication, namely from Cityview Magazine. Cityview spent every week making Juice (and the Register) their personal pinata, attacking them for writing “fluff” pieces and not “hard news” as Cityview stakes their claim to. The statement below from Cityview’s “Winners and Losers” column propelled me to send…
A Look Back: The Mind of a Young Professional
NOTE: I’m introducing a series of old posts I wrote for Juice from 2006 until 2008. This post was written on February 23, 2006, during my first week blogging. The topic for this entry is about what is a young professional in Des Moines. The uptick of young professionals in Des Moines started to become the…
Back to the Beginning: The Juice Days
Having writer’s block is one of the worst experiences that a writer or someone whose career involves writing have to battle. Being unable to put together thoughts and ideas that you can create into a story, article, or a column, is equally worse. I haven’t had the (physical) energy and (mental) motivation to sit down hammer…
In Search of…an Identity
Mike Draper’s column in Juice tripped my trigger on something that I’ve put off writing about. I’ve been a Des Moines resident for 15 years. I didn’t grow up here, left the state, and came back, like Draper did. I’m from Waterloo, went to Wartburg College, and came here after college. And yet, I’m still…
Civility Is Not Dead...Yet 