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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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Knock-off store-brand RoboTussin, get me through this day.
Worthy causes. #beavisandbutthead #nachos
Because of course I’m going to get this wretched plague again when I’m three days into a new job. Yes, I’m vaccinated. #covid19
30 minutes of silence. #TeacherYearOne
The new office. Room 1080. True story. This used to be the shop where Dad 2.0 made a toolbox 🧰 that’s still in the back of his truck today.
Room 1059. The legend begins.
Things are getting real now. #dmps #newteacher
A gift from the indomitable Sue Evans to put a little Southside flair on my eastside teacher’s desk. Much love to Sue and my old friend, @dmrevans, without whom this adventure would not have taken place. Your folks are heroes, @evanssara12 and @kevans2810, but you already knew that.
Putin on the Ritz. Get it? Watch “Young Frankenstein.”
#ragbrai
It’s great to have creative friends.
#incrediblehulk #1970s #70stv
Early photo of @dmrevans, the best Iowa journalist any of us will ever know.
If the words “brain eating amoeba infection” are not incredulous enough, the words “Iowa beach” must surely be the tipping point to reality.
My friend @dgoold sends great postcards. Objectively, of course. #repbx #yankees
It’s a good day for some recon. #gijoe #yojoe #stalkerv2
It’s not #july4th until the homemade ice cream is broken out.
America!
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