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I'm sorry, I don't. His obituary says he died at his mother's home April 30. Unless there was an autopsy performed, I don't know if I can find out.
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It's perfectly legal for a citizen to carry a police scanner and listen to the transmissions. It is, however, illegal to use the scanner to monitor police movements while committing a crime.
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The paper portion of the newspaper industry may fade in the near future, but the news portion will go on in new forms.
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Superman. Batman is the cooler character, but Superman moves faster than the speed of thought. Batman is out cold before he can pull a gadget out of his belt.
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I've got a little numbness remaining in the left side of my face. The company doctors (who have been outstanding, by the way) are going to look at that next week. As far as becoming news, there hasn't been much problem with that. It's awkward to be on the other side of the notebook, but I suppose it's good for me so I can empathize with the poor souls I interview.
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I've never seen the movie all the way through.
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Crime rates in Des Moines and Iowa have declined nearly every for a decade, according to the FBI. I grew up here and do not think there is a crime problem. This does not mean there is an absence of crime, but we are not Baltimore or Detroit. We have below-average crime rate per thousand for cities of our size. The perception of Des Moines as crime-riddled partially comes from people who live in small Iowa communities with almost no exposure to crime. For them, any crime is a serious problem. Generally speaking, the more people you have, the more crime there is. We have the most people in of any city in Iowa and the highest crime rate, but, as my dear friend Randy Evans said, having the highest crime rate in Iowa is a little bit like being the tallest midget in the parade.
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Our data team is working on a project that maps crime in the entire metro area. When we're ready to publish that work, we can have a data-supported answer rather than one based on gut-reaction. As for where I wouldn't go, until an incident a couple weeks ago, I would have said there was nowhere I was afraid to go. Now, though, I am more cautious.
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Patric. No "k." Grandma Gertie, born on St. Pat's day, said it was more Irish that way.
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Nah. They don't have the orange jumpsuits in my size.
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Who wants to spend extra money on their license plate?
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I'm ashamed to admit that I have, usually for work.
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Generally, we don't name anyone under 10. There are exceptions. If an elementary school student was accused of murder, for example, that would create a tremendous debate about what the right thing is to do. Here's hoping we never have that debate.
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It's a monthly test of the tornado sirens. They do it in Des Moines, too.
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Heaven, aka Field of Dreams. I don't know if they're hiring.
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Retire all debts, make a 7-figure contribution to Drake, buy a really good car, a condo in the top of the Plaza (looking south) and drop out of society.
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Retire all debts, make a 7-figure contribution to Drake, buy a really good car, a condo in the top of the Plaza (looking south) and drop out of society.
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Daniel P. Finney’s Bio
A misanthrope, iconoclast and general grouch since the late 1980s, Daniel P. Finney mans the lonely outpost of night police reporter in the decidedly not crime-ridden capital city of Iowa. He winnows away his nights following the chicanery of low-rent thu
