Jeff Lester

Updated 5:45 p.m. The city of Des Moines tightened its control over business’ ability to sell alcohol Monday night, extending a temporary ban on new liquor licenses to include stores as small as a gas station and as large as a grocery store. The City Council voted to re-arrange its meeting agenda in order to pass a moratorium extension before the applications for 10 Des Moines Walgreens stores ever came to a vote. The move expands the breadth of businesses that fall under the moratoriu...

Des Moines City Councilman Skip Moore plans to talk at tonight’s council meeting on a proposal to require all city boards and commissions to be gender balanced, an idea that came after Moore addressed a branch of the American Association of University Women on Saturday. Moore said one of the group’s goals is to see gender balance on government bodies. “We talked about that during my welcome and I just thought it would only be appropriate that we should be considering that,” he told the D...