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Kyle Munson is the Iowa columnist for The Des Moines Register.

Kyle can be reached at (515) 284-8124 or kmunson@dmreg.com.


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  2. Munson: Twin Peaks: Is it hot stuff, or too spicy?

    Tember Ellis, left, and Alex Webster of Twin Peaks, a “breastaurant” in West Des Moines. KYLE MUNSON/THE REGISTER

    What else were we supposed to do? Stay home and watch the season premiere of "The Bachelorette?"

  3. Munson: Post office news met with relief, skepticism

    Were post offices truly snatched from the jaws of death last week when the United States Postal Service reversed course and announced that instead of closing 3,700 mostly rural offices, it would slash hours of operation at 13,000 of them — 572 in Iowa? De

  4. Munson: Legal issue means town needs revote to disband

    And so we return to the tiny town of Mount Sterling, situated so far south in Iowa, nestled within the rolling landscape of Van Buren County, that it nearly spills into Missouri.

  5. Munson: Iowan more than a footnote in JFK lore

    Earl Rose was the medical examiner in Dallas in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed there. This photo was taken in the mid-1960s. PHOTOS SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER

    The world tends to remember 85-year-old Earl Rose, a retired forensic pathologist and University of Iowa professor now facing his own final days, for one fleeting moment in the middle of a national tragedy.

  6. Munson: Family affair on the town square

    Northside Cafe, an iconic diner on the town square in Winterset, has new owners. Des Moines food aficionados will recognize them as the former owners of Chat Noir in the Sherman Hill historic district. From left are Michele Jahncke, Richele Baburina, Oleg Baburin and Walt Jahncke. MARY CHIND/THE REGISTER

    Don’t worry: The fourth diner stool in from the front door at Northside Cafe remains rooted in place, waiting for a return visit by Clint Eastwood.

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