The Tailgate Society

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  • No School, No Problem: Teaching Your Kids At Home

    No School, No Problem: Teaching Your Kids At Home

    With the COVID-19 pandemic now in high gear and finally being taken seriously by many employers, cities, states, and governments, life is beginning to look legitimately different for many of us. If you’re smart and capable of doing so, hopefully you’re doing your part to mitigate the spread of the virus and staying home. Here […]

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  • The Healing Power of the Long Weekend

    The Healing Power of the Long Weekend

    Living is hard. Whatever your age, whatever your situation, there’s things that make going about your daily life difficult and when they really start to weigh you down, it can be extremely difficult to get back to normal. For me, it’s been a struggle to juggle a job, multiple side jobs, planning for the future, […]

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  • The need to Support Local Media

    The need to Support Local Media

    Although Des Moines is ranked as media market #93 to the folks at iHeartMedia, this community is Market #1 to hundreds of thousands of folks, and an important (and fun!) aspect of our lives is missing today.

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  • Dear Greyson

    Dear Greyson

    Make that effort; you probably can’t change the whole world but you can change the world around you.

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  • Living Through Impeachment

    Living Through Impeachment

    When learning about the process of impeaching a president, the first one in any history book was Richard Nixon. The Watergate break in, the Washington Post’s heroics, the tapes, the resignation. It was a story about how Democracy worked, even if it was awfully dramatic. I always wondered what I would have done as an […]

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  • Shawntez’s Tailgate Menu – Week 7

    Shawntez’s Tailgate Menu – Week 7

    Golden Delicious This week kicks off pretty slow. There’s a big matchup at the Texas State Fair where Oklahoma and Texas show down in the Red River Rivalry, but that’s about all that’s worth paying attention to early on. The Big Ten can’t even save us this week, as the only ranked team they have […]

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  • Shawntez’s Tailgate Menu – Week 6

    Shawntez’s Tailgate Menu – Week 6

    I’m not going to recap Week 5 too much because all any of us took from it was that Ohio State ran the absolute brakes off of Nebraska, under the lights, in front of the entire country. Way to go Huskers.LETS GET INTO IT! Italian Sunset If you know me, you know I very rarely […]

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  • Shawntez’s Tailgate Menu – Week 5

    Shawntez’s Tailgate Menu – Week 5

    We are flying through the college football season and the storylines and conference powers are really poking out now. Friday night, USC battled Utah giving the Utes their first loss. Michigan headed to Madison where the Badgers wiped the entire state of Michigan with their butts. Washington State had a quarterback throw for NINE TOUCHDOWNS […]

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  • Shawntez’s Tailgate Menu – Week 4

    Shawntez’s Tailgate Menu – Week 4

    I’m going to be honest. Like a lot of people in the lovely state of Iowa, I can’t give you too much of a recap on what happened in Week 3. While I occasionally would glance at the 11 a.m. games, the whole day went off the rails at 3 pm. The CyHawk game got […]

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  • Shawntez’s Tailgate Menu – Week 3

    Shawntez’s Tailgate Menu – Week 3

    Week 2 has come and gone and all I learned was that I’m very bad at betting on college football! LSU beat Texas in an exciting game that didn’t really tell us anything about Texas or LSU. Maryland scored 3,000 points against Syracuse, Army flirted with Michigan, Nebraska and Colorado put on an absolute show, […]

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