Author: Michael J. Crumb
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This little piggy went to apprehensive market
DES MOINES, Iowa • Like the virus itself, the name “swine flu” is spreading quickly. For the pork purveyors and hog farmers who make up the nation’s $15 billion pork industry, that’s a disaster. It doesn’t seem to matter that the strain may not come entirely from pigs and cannot be spread by eating pork.…
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‘Dewey’ chronicles life of author, cat and town
DES MOINES, Iowa • He was a yellow tabby with twinkling green eyes, who arrived in the overnight drop box of a farmland library one frigid January night. Dewey Readmore Books became the library’s star boarder and an international celebrity. Now he’s the subject of a best-seller that chronicles the struggles of the library worker…