Great Facilities, Great Communities Before moving to the St. Louis metro area, I lived in Urbandale, a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa. During a 2023 city election there, 83% of voters rejected a bond referendum to fund the U-Plex, a new rec center.
Building Playgrounds For Heat Waves For the past few summers, new heat records were set almost daily, across the country. The phenomenon suggests no single region is more prone to excessive heat than another. This article is for Paid-members only
