FROM KCCI: New restrictions for pipelines in bill that passed through Iowa Statehouse late Monday. Iowa lawmakers have approved a bill (HF 639) that could impose new restrictions on pipeline companies seeking to use eminent domain for their projects, with the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline at the center of the debate. The legislation now awaits Gov. Kim Reynolds' signature.  ... READ MORE

FROM WHO-TV: Iowa’s first Latina legislator sworn in to office. History was made at the Iowa State Capitol Tuesday morning. New State Representative Angel Ramirez (D-Cedar Rapids) was sworn in. She is the first Latina to be elected to the Iowa State Legislature. ... READ MORE

FROM WOI: Fireworks would be allowed in all cities for July 4 under advancing House bill. If signed into law, cities and counties will be prohibited from banning or limiting the use of fireworks on July 3rd and 4th, and on New Year's Eve. ... READ MORE

Clear Mortgage meteorology

A hotter Wednesday ahead. Rain chances in the north Thursday, then cooling. Next rain chance comes late Sunday into Monday.

For help with pre-approvals or refinancing, get in touch with Originating Branch Manager Carrie Hansen at carrie.mortgage.

Woebegone Wednesday
 
Heavy drinking: It’s not just for lonely people anymore. 24/7 Wall Street released a survey that found Iowa ranked second only to perpetual champion Wisconsin in cities with drinking problems. The Badgers had twice as many (12) top 100 heavy drinking towns. Iowa had six with Dubuque leading the pack ahead of Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls/Waterloo, Des Moines and Ames. Those are all in heavily populated eastern and central Iowa. That gives the lie to the long standing belief that heavy drinking is a product of desolation. Sioux City and Harlan in western Iowa had some bars that refused to enforce Prohibition. Does this mean that heavy drinking is out of the closet?
  
Deals today
• Wednesdays bring steak night to Club 2000 (422 Indianola Road, Des Moines). Steaks are cooked to order with salad, potato and bread, $14.99.

• Angry Goldfish (2301 S.W. Ninth St., Des Moines) offers hot beef sandwiches with mashed potatoes and gravy for $11.50 on Wednesday. 

• Curbin' Cuisine (1325 SW Oralabor Road, Ankeny) offers traditional gyros for $7 Wednesdays. 

• Wine bottles are half price on Wednesdays at Trostel's Greenbriar (5910 Merle Hay Road, Johnston). The Continental, (407 East Fifth St., Des Moines) also has half-priced bottles on Wednesdays. 

• Barntown's (9500 S.E. University Ave., West Des Moines) Wednesday specials are a pound of chicken tenders with fries and two sauces for $11.99, plus $13 core pitchers of beer.

• Wednesday is Biryani Festival at Chowrastha (5910 Ashworth Road, West Des Moines). Buy two and a third is free.

• Village Inns offer free pie with entrees on Wednesdays. 

• Kids eat free with every paying adult on Wednesdays at Chuck’s (3610 Sixth Ave., Des Moines).

• It's lasagna day at Maxie's Supper Club (1311 Grand Ave., West Des Moines), breaded pork tenderloin day at Eastside Eddie's (3517 E. 26th St.), and barbecue ribs evening at G Migg's (128 Fifth St., Valley Junction).

• Panka Peruvian (2708 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines) has live jazz Wednesday. 

• Curbin Cuisine (1325 SW Oralabor, Ankeny) has $7 gyros on Wednesdays. 

• Bordanaro's (6108 S.W. Ninth St., Des Moines) has a Wednesday-Thursday only special on carryout pizza. They start at $6.50 for a 10-inch cheese pie. Each ingredient added is an extra charge, but this pretty much adds up to half-price pies.

• Gilroy's (1238 Eighth St., West Des Moines) has fried chicken specials tonight.  

• Kwik Stars' special of eight pieces of fried chicken for $10 is daily now through the first week of June. Their fried chicken is ridiculously good for a convenience store.  

• On Wednesdays you can get any burger, wrap or sandwich with fries for $9.99 at Tito's Lounge (3916 N.W. Urbandale Dr, Urbandale). 

• Jake Schrodt plays Stuffed Olive at 6 tonight and Andy Classen / Jack Curtis Duo is at Louie’s Wine Dive at the same time.  

• Jethro's have $9.99 BPT sandwiches, including  side of choice, on Wednesdays. 

• Price Choppers have sales on iceberg lettuce at $1.69 each, frozen Swai fillets at $3.49/pound and chicken hindquarters for $6.99/10-pound bag, through Monday.

• Fresh Thyme (2900 University Ave., West Des Moines) begins week-long sales today on sockeye salmon fillets at $9.99/pound, 3-pound bags of mandarins or navel oranges for $2.99. and asparagus for 99 cents/pound with coupon.  
 
— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com

1607: Jamestown settlers arrive. On May 14, 1607, some 100 English colonists arrive along the east bank of the James River in Virginia to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Dispatched from England by the London Company, the colonists had sailed across the Atlantic aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery. ... READ MORE

1804: Lewis and Clark depart to explore the Northwest. May 14, 1804: One year after the United States doubled its territory with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition leaves St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. ... READ MORE

1973: America’s first space station, Skylab, is launched. Skylab, America’s first space station, is successfully launched into an orbit around the earth. Eleven days later, U.S. astronauts Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, and Paul Weitz made a rendezvous with Skylab, repairing a jammed solar panel and conducting scientific experiments during their 28-day stay aboard the space station. ... READ MORE

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