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Our own Iowa Boy and Iowa Collaborative member Chuck Offenburger writes about why we call this monthly gathering of the clan the Office Lounge in his column today. Here’s something to wet your whistle. You’ll want to read his hilarious, well-reported column about ‘our’ Office Lounge, next to The Des Moines Register building:
Big ideas at the Office Lounge, Chuck Offenburger
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2022 – The Office Lounge, a downtown Des Moines bar that was a legendary hangout for Iowa journalists from the 1960s until it closed in the 1990s, is “re-opening” this week, and you’re all invited.
Oh, the original owners-operators Rocky Gabriel, his ex-wife Dorothy Gabriel and their daughter Roxie Gabriel Beck won’t be there. They’re deceased.
But we’ll honor their spirits and the spirit of the little bar where a whole lot of big ideas were launched back when…
read the column here: https://open.substack.com/pub/chuckoffenburger/p/big-ideas-at-the-new-office-lounge?r=fkojq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Your weekly roundup of columns:
LAURA BELIN
DOUGLAS BURNS, CARROLL
DAVE BUSIEK
ART CULLEN
SUZANNA DE BACA
DEB ENGLE
JULIE GAMMACK
JODY GIFFORD
BETH HOFFMAN
DANA JAMES
BOB LEONARD
CHUCK OFFENBURGER
BARRY PIATT
MARY SWANDER
ED TIBBETTS
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THANKS, CHUCK!