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Election 2022: Public Measure 1 would eliminate
Thriftmart, Joppa’s nonprofit thrift store,
‘current and future common-sense gun laws’
to open in Des Moines on Thursday
By Paul Brennan, Oct. 13
By Lily DeTaeye, Oct. 19
Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks was blunt in his
A new thrift store is opening on Euclid Avenue, operated
assessment of Public Measure 1, which would amend the
by Joppa, a Des Moines nonprofit fighting houselessness
Iowa Constitution in a way that would stop most attempts to regulate
in Des Moines by providing food, education and access to rent-controlled
guns in the state. “This amendment is a wolf in sheep’s clothing,”
housing. All proceeds from the thrift store go directly back to fund
Maybanks said at a news conference at the Cedar Rapids Public Library.
Joppa’s mission.
Iowa has ‘among the worst protections’ from abusive
Watch: Screenwriter and producer
towing in the nation. In Des Moines, criticism has
David Kajganich on adapting novels,
centered on one tow company (Oct. 20)
cannibalism and Iowa City’s new film festival
By Mike Kuhlenbeck, Oct. 20
Video by Jason Smith and Emma McClatchey, Oct. 5
One year after a Des Moines towing and impound
For the first time in four years, screenwriter and Iowa
company lost its contract with Polk County amid allegations of predatory
Writers’ Workshop alum David Kajganich is back in Iowa City for the
behavior, a wider discussion about towing laws is underway. Crow’s Auto
inaugural ReFocus Festival, screening his genre-bending, spine-tingling
Service, Inc. (better known as Crow Tow) has been in business for over
new work. Bones and All is the third adapted screenplay Kajganich has
20 years, and been accused of illegal and unethical towing practices.
crafted for director Luca Guadagnino.
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