Daniel P. Finney

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DANIEL P. FINNEY

1217 24th St.

Apt. 36

Des Moines, IA 50311

515-371-9453 (Texts welcome.)

newsmanone@gmail.com

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My very best stacked paragraphs

  • A special delivery: Love after tragedy brings baby into world
  • ‘Reuben Spider-Man,’ 4, finds his way home with a little police help
  • ‘An extraordinarily gifted storyteller’: Former Register writer Ken Fuson dies at 63
  • ‘The other Bob Woodward,’ a beloved Drake University journalism professor, dies at 82
  • Iowa World War II vet still finds joy of a hard day’s work slicing meat at 95
  • Ticked-off basketball fans led to the invention of first time clock for high-school sports
  • Crime novels, comics, plays and movies: Prolific Iowa author Max Allan Collins writes them all
  • How a California crow named Clover made Jenni Boonjakuakul central Iowa’s ‘bird lady’
  • From advice to recipes, Iowa woman retires after 70-year career as one of nation’s longest-serving newspaper columnists
  • The day KCCI’s Weather Beacon went dark for good
  • World Series: Iowa Hall of Famer Bob Feller reached his final Fall Classic 65 years ago
  • Meet the Iowan the world just learned helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II
  • A dirty hit, a broken jaw and the day Drake and Oklahoma A&M changed college football forever
  • How 5 ‘mistakes’ by Iowan Ken Quinn ultimately made the World Food Prize world-class
  • Iowa mom who lost son in Afghanistan copes by making masks to fight coronavirus spread
  • Ballet performance outside senior housing raises spirits of residents quarantined by COVID-19
  • An Iowa couple with COVID-19: She lives; he died
  • Betty Lou and ‘House With the Magic Window’ entertained Iowans for 43 years on WOI-TV
  • Whatever happened to ‘Machine Gun’ Molly Bolin, the Iowa prep who signed the first women’s pro contract?
  • Over 25 years into her softball career, an Iowa legend will play for Italian national team at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo
  • That time an Iowa girls’ basketball star was drafted out of high school by the NBA’s Warriors
  • Jean Seberg: Iowa actress robbed of Cinderella story by FBI harassment
  • Pope John Paul II’s Iowa visit at 40: Untold tales of cracked statues, cigarette deals and a crowd-surfing baby
  • ‘I’m glad to be alive, but I lost my husband’
  • BARBIE, KEN CALL IT QUITS
  • Carlisle teacher digs into unsolved murder of officer
  • March 15, 1993: The first paid paragraphs

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This is just good, general advice. From #ihatethisplace comic via @imagecomics.
Graduation card from the wife of one my dearest friends.
The pool is finally open. Feels great, but it’s may need some help getting out.
Proud part-time newsman for the Marion County Express.
Daniel P. Finney, Licensed to Teach. @drakeuniversity
One day, Col. Sanders, there will be a reckoning. One day. #kfc #famouschicken
#DarthVader built #c3po. That’s where things went awry.
I’ll make it. 🏀 #nbafinals #stephcurry #dubs
I had other lines. #itsatrap #admiralakbar #starwars
First @drakeuniversity diploma: 1997.
Torrential downpours? Finally. My car was looking pretty dusty. #iaweather #dmweather
Another job interview. Another Steve Buttry tie. Let me get this one. That guy could always root out a job. I need some of that luck. Thoughts and prayers welcome.
Job interview today. I’m taking one of my late buddy Steve Buttry’s tie with me for good luck. God knows that man knew how to get a job.
IT’S A TRAP! #starwars
I’m sitting alone in the classroom I shared with my mentor teacher during student teaching. There are six thank you cards, one from each of my classes. I am moved to tears. Thank you @DCGDistrict High, @literarylozada, and @DrakeUniversity. #newteacher
Moments later …
When it’s Dad 2.0’s birthday, but you have a piece of cake waiting for you at your house when you get home.
This stain in my shirt at 7:45 a.m. honors my late friend Ken Fuson who never met a cup of coffee or plate of food that he didn’t deposit at least some of which on his shirt. I miss you, Ken. Fortunately I’m clumsy enough to keep your tradition alive.
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