Browse past news stories for Bridges in Des Moines, IA.

• Washington Legislature alert: Kent Council says it will lobby state for levee repairs, traffic studies (Kent Reporter)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 11:28:08 pm
  Kent city officials plan to lobby the state Legislature next year to help pay for Green River levee repairs as well as a design to rebuild the Highway 167 interchange at Willis Street.
• Palisade Systems Inc. moves to Des Moines (The Ames Tribune)
  posted on November 22, 2009 at 06:58:22 am
  A longtime Ames data security company’s decision to leave town is a sign of its emergence as a more visible competitor, according to its president and chief executive officer.
• Odd news -- November 19, 2009 (WTVY Dothan)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 11:14:08 am
  Odd news from around the United States.
• Iowans unsure of state officials’ budget-cutting decisions, poll shows (The Gazette)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 02:06:19 pm
  A new Iowa Poll shows that Iowans are lacking confidence in state officials’ budget cutting decisions. The poll published Tuesday in a copyright story in The Des Moines Register shows four out of five Iowans have little to no confidence that state officials are making good decisions. A majority of Iowans say they support spending more money [...]
• Poll shows Iowans lack confidence in officials (The Globe Gazette)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 06:35:16 am
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A new Iowa Poll shows that Iowans are lacking confidence in state officials' budget cutting decisions.
• Poll shows Iowans lack confidence in officials (KWWL Iowa)
  posted on November 17, 2009 at 05:21:42 pm
  A new Iowa Poll shows that Iowans are lacking confidence in state officials' budget cutting decisions. The poll published Tuesday in a copyright story in The Des Moines Register shows four out of five Iowans have little to no confidence that state officials are making good decisions.
• Across the USA News from every state (USA Today)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 04:23:04 am
  News from every state
• Record year for road work extended by wet weather (The Des Moines Register)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 10:24:40 am
  Iowa motorists will likely be dodging orange traffic cones at least through Thanksgiving, thanks to wet weather that has forced road construction crews to play catch-up during a record year for highway projects.
• Cure for Urban Blight: Plant Lots of Sculpture (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  posted on October 30, 2009 at 06:19:10 am
  Des Moines -- DRIVERS entering this capital city from the west once sped past a motley collection of worn-out buildings, including auto repair shops, vacant storefronts and a pornographic bookstore. But in recent years that vista has been replaced by verdant open space, benches and walkways -- and, as of this fall, a sculpture park with works by Willem de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois and Sol Lewitt ...
• Cure for Urban Blight: Plant Lots of Sculpture (New York Times)
  posted on October 30, 2009 at 04:20:05 am
  Visitors to the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park view “Nomade” by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa.
• Signs target noisy ‘Jake brake’ (Quad-City Times)
  posted on October 25, 2009 at 11:15:57 pm
  Q: As my work takes me around to some of the small towns and villages in the Quad-City area, I notice two signs upon entering a town. One always says, "Reduce speed ahead." I get that one. The other sign throws me for a loop. It says "Engine braking not allowed." I don't understand what that means. Any idea?
• Des Moines: Charming, impressive surprising (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
  posted on October 24, 2009 at 06:16:58 pm
  With a sophisticated art scene, major-league restaurants, eye-catching architecture and proud history, Iowa's capital city charms and impresses.
• Morning Link Dump – Angelica, Mattingly, Bissinger, Bear-Baiting (TheScore.com)
  posted on October 20, 2009 at 05:42:59 am
  Obligatory Sports Babe This morning we’ll go with Angelica Bridges, ex of Sheldon Souray, who is embroiled in a child custody case with the Edmonton Oiler defenseman, and also really hot. via To Aggregate Or Not To Aggregate… In a great piece from The Big Money that examines the invaluable baseball rumour site, MLB Trade Rumors , and notes that the debate over sites that aggregate other people’s ...
• Junge heads to the Big Apple via I-80 on his bike (Wyoming Tribune-Eagle)
  posted on October 19, 2009 at 12:27:07 pm
  Editor's note: On Thursday, Cheyenne author Mark Junge began his fifth long-distance bicycle ride.
• A history of the Honey Creek flood - July 6, 1881 (Boone News Republican)
  posted on October 16, 2009 at 01:27:10 pm
  Almost everyone in Boone knows the story of the heroic deeds of Kate Shelley, which occurred on that same memorable day: July 6, 1881. Late that same evening, she possibly saved many lives when she spread the alarm that the railroad bridge over Honey Creek had collapsed from the floodwaters under it. There are many stories describing that event, but the following is not a repeat of the record of ...
• Durbin tells Summit crowd that increase in fuel tax needed to help pay for federal highway bill (Quincy Herald-Whig)
  posted on October 13, 2009 at 01:00:29 pm
  FAIRFIELD, Iowa -- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin wants to see a federal highway bill that will send about $90 billion a year to states for highways, bridges and other transportation needs.
• Mike Aldax (The San Francisco Examiner)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 06:31:26 pm
  Why I like my job: Every day, what’s happening in The City seems as much to be happening in the newsroom. That said, I always feel like I’m a part of everything — like I’m everywhere at once.
• Rowing hopes to continue early season success (The Daily Iowan)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 12:01:36 pm
  The Iowa rowing team looks to build on momentum from its record-breaking performance at the Head of the Des Moines two weeks ago when the Hawkeyes travel to Rockford, Ill., for the Head of the Rock regatta on Oct. 11.
• County pencils in next big projects (Jackson County Pilot)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 09:29:31 am
  Two new buildings, a new emergency radio system and overhauls to several roads and bridges sit atop Jackson County’s to-do list for the next five years.
• A look at the future, a nod to the past (Boone News Republican)
  posted on October 6, 2009 at 01:26:40 pm
  In a nod to railroad history, Union Pacific announced Thursday that the new railroad high bridge built west of Boone, parallel to the Kate Shelley Bridge that was originally built in 1901, would retain the name of the railroad legend. And so, in front of a crowd that included Union Pacific representatives, local and state representatives, and the media, one of North America’s tallest double ...
• Fashion Focus Chicago 2009 brings the hottest looks to Millennium Park (Daily Herald)
  posted on October 4, 2009 at 02:40:45 am
  Fashion Focus Chicago 2009 brings the hottest looks to Millennium Park and venues throughout the city for four days of runway shows, cutting-edge designs from emerging artists, shopping events and previews of designers' latest collections for spring 2010.
• Repairs nearly done on Iowa's flood-damaged rails (INO News)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 12:16:52 pm
  (AP:DES MOINES, Iowa) More than a year after record flooding wiped out 17 railroad bridges and hundreds of miles of track in Iowa, officials say repairs are almost done.
• Repairs nearly done on Iowa's flood-damaged rails (Marshalltown Times-Republican)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 04:07:49 am
  DES MOINES - More than a year after record flooding wiped out 17 railroad bridges and hundreds of miles of track in Iowa, officials say repairs are almost done. Gov. Chet Culver and U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, attended a ceremony Monday to announce the reopening of the Iowa Northern Railway Bridge in Waterloo, a nearly $6 million project to restore rail service over the Cedar River.
• Repairs Nearly Done on Iowa's Flood-damaged Rails (KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids)
  posted on September 28, 2009 at 09:25:46 pm
  DES MOINES (AP) - More than a year after the floods of 2008 wiped out 17 railroad bridges and hundreds of miles of track, officials say repairs to Iowa's damaged rail lines are nearing completion.
• The trials and triumphs of Gov. Culver (The Des Moines Register)
  posted on September 27, 2009 at 09:17:41 am
  There was no stopping Gov. Chet Culver from heading west through the stormy night last year after a tornado ripped through a Boy Scout camp. After four days in flood-ravaged eastern Iowa, a tired Culver was at the Emergency Operations Center near Des Moines at about 1 a.m. when he got the news that four Scouts had been killed.
• News in brief (Forest City Summit)
  posted on September 26, 2009 at 04:06:31 am
  Story created Sep 22, 2009 - 16:07:56 CDT. Statewide examinations for the positions of deputy assessor and city or county assessor have been scheduled for October, according to Mark Schuling, Director of the Iowa Department of Revenue.
• BNSF Says Iowa's Application for Stimulus Funds Will Help Improve the State's Freight Mobility and Economy (Marketwire)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 07:56:24 pm
  FORT WORTH, TX--(Marketwire - September 22, 2009) - BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today said that the state of Iowa's application for a $25 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant to replace the Burlington Bridge will have a significant impact on improving freight and passenger mobility and the economy in Iowa. The Burlington Bridge spans the Mississippi River ...
• Linn Street viaduct - in the beginning (Boone News Republican)
  posted on September 20, 2009 at 06:57:40 am
  A couple of years ago, when the city started looking into another alternate means to cross over the Chicago & North Western Railway tracks, via a subway underneath or a bridge overpass, I became curious as to how this old viaduct came into being and decided it would be interesting to research this subject. The only sources available with such information were old newspaper accounts of the period ...
• Driver suspected in bicyclist’s death has vision problem (The Des Moines Register)
  posted on September 16, 2009 at 09:22:47 am
  The Winterset man arrested this week in the fatal hit-and-run bicycle accident in has vision problems, an Iowa DOT official and a family member said.
• New half-mile railroad bridge replaces historic Boone trestle (The Des Moines Register)
  posted on September 14, 2009 at 09:21:07 am
  Freight trains have begun moving across a new $43 million bridge over the Des Moines River that reportedly is the tallest double-track railroad structure in North America.