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Polk County will soon lose a good Supervisor

By Brian Gongol on January 29, 2012 3:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Redistricting brought on by population shifts inside Polk County have put Bob Brownell and EJ Giovanetti in the same district. As the two Republicans on the county's board of supervisors, they didn't want to run against one another, so Giovanetti has decided not to run again. Regardless of one's politics, this should be seen as a loss for the county. He's a good person with a resume of volunteer contributions of his time that's so long, it looks like the work of five or six people. Undoubtedly, he'll continue to find ways to serve the community, but Giovanetti has long been the ideal kind of person to have serving in local government and it's too bad his voice will no longer be heard among the supervisors.

The bridge to nowhere...will soon go somewhere

By Brian Gongol on January 19, 2012 4:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The bridge for Alice's Road (in Waukee) and 105th Street (in West Des Moines) has been approved for an interchange with Interstate 80. Long-time residents of West Des Moines might have a hard time swallowing the fact that West Des Moines street numbers now far exceed those of the City of Des Moines and are now approaching what used to be those of western Clive. But that westward expansion is now creating the incentive to make traffic out west more palatable, and while Waukee just hopes to have some kind of development spring up on the forthcoming Interstate access corridor, the mayor of West Des Moines says he's just happy that people will soon have a north-south travel alternative to Jordan Creek Parkway (74th Street).

Waukee is challenged commercially in the long term by the fact that the Interstate curves away from it -- so there are portions of Van Meter and De Soto that are more easily reached from West Des Moines via I-80 than most of Waukee.

Dallas County Republican caucus locations

By Brian Gongol on January 3, 2012 4:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Precinct	Location	Address	Delegates
Adams	Crossroads Church	18293 365th Street, Earlham, IA	11
Adel	ADM Elementary School	1608 Grove Street, Adel, IA	22
Clive	Shuler Elementary School	16400 Douglas Parkway, Clive, IA	36
Colfax/Adel	ADM Elementary School	1608 Grove Street, Adel, IA	11
Dallas	Dawson Fire Station	208 S First Street, Dawson, IA	3
Dallas Center	Memorial Hall	1502 Walnut Street, Dallas Center, IA	11
Des Moines	Woodward-Granger High School Auditorium	306 W. 3rd Street, Woodward, IA	9
DeSoto	DeSoto Intermediate School	317 Spruce Street, DeSoto, IA	6
Dexter/Union	Roundhouse	707 Dallas Street, Dexter, IA	9
Grant	Woodward-Granger Elementary School	2200 State Street, Granger, IA	13
Lincoln / Washington	Washington Township School	18930 210th Street, Minburn, IA	4
Linn	Washington Township School	18930 210th Street, Minburn, IA	5
Perry 1	Perry Elementary School	1600 8th Street, Perry, IA	8
Perry 2	Perry Elementary School	1600 8th Street, Perry, IA	8
Perry 3	Perry Elementary School	1600 8th Street, Perry, IA	8
Redfield	Washington Township School	18930 210th Street, Minburn, IA	5
Spring Valley / Beaver	Perry Elementary School	1600 8th Street, Perry, IA	7
Sugar Grove	United Methodist Church	705 Chestnut Street, Minburn, IA	6
Van Meter	Van Meter High School Cafeteria	520 1st Avenue, Van Meter, IA	18
Walnut / Grimes / Urbandale	Point of Grace Church	305 NE Dartmoor Drive, Waukee, IA	48
Waukee 1	Maple Grove Elementary School	1455 98th Street, West Des Moines, IA	15
Waukee 2	Waukee South Middle School	2350 Southeast LA Grant Parkway, Waukee, IA	11
Waukee 3	Point of Grace Church	305 NE Dartmoor Drive, Waukee, IA	26
Waukee 4	Walnut Hills Elementary School	4240 NW 156th Street, Urbandale, IA	32
West Des Moines 1	7 Flags Event Center	2100 NW 100th, Clive, IA	23
West Des Moines 2	7 Flags Event Center	2100 NW 100th, Clive, IA	35
West Des Moines 3 / Boone	Waukee High School Auditorium	555 SE University, Waukee, IA	21

Brian Gongol: January 2012 Archives

Polk County will soon lose a good Supervisor

The bridge to nowhere...will soon go somewhere

Dallas County Republican caucus locations

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