Midwestern Newspaper Asks: 'Tired of Bad News?'

A pox on anyone who answers, "No."

The only thing we would change on the front page of today’s Des Moines Register is the incline of the smiley face’s mouth. It would have been more appropriate, given the headline, if the line had been pointing downwards.

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Metro Voice columnist Daniel P. Finney, who started writing for the Iowa daily at age 17 in 1993, starts off his piece with a homespun recollection involving his Grandma Newcomb. He then, as a tonic for these terrible times, runs down 20 brief items of “good” local news.

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