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Gartner is a former president and editor of The Des Moines (Iowa) Register and The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky. Both papers published the woman's name Wednesday.
As small towns go, Algona embodies the American Dream. Nestled along the East Fork of the Des Moines River, it is a quietly prospering place for 6,015 men, women and children. And unlike so many other Iowa communities, its economy isn't entirely tied to corn. Algona is the...
Shock turned to grief, followed by the hollow ache of the town's terrible loss. For weeks, Algona's ministers counseled their congregations. Funeral director Mike Schaaf, who buried the Dreesmans, organized a grief-recovery seminar, bringing from Des Moines a psychologist specializing in traumatic losses. "If the killing had...
The only thing more embarrassing to the Democrats than the spectacle of seven dwarfs scrambling for the presidential nomination 20 months before the election is the absence of any candidates at all. At this point in the run-up to the 1988 voting, a bomb blast in Des Moines' Savery...
In Des Moines business leaders are sponsoring a program called Smoother Sailing, which sends counselors like "Sunburst Lady" Toni Johansen into the city's elementary schools. National studies have shown that such support helps improve confidence, discipline and attitudes about school. With the extra funding, the city has been able...