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In case you're looking for abundant political fun to be had this weekend, your options are aplenty. Those hoping to find out all the gory details of municipal budgeting can sit in on the West Des Moines city budget workshop starting at 8:00 on Saturday morning. And then, if that hasn't fulfilled all of your hopes and dreams, you can migrate to your precinct caucuses to help set the Republican or Democratic party agendas for the state in 2010.

The AFL has suspended Arena Football for the 2009 season, but AF2, the development league, says the game's still on for 2009. That's good news for us, since the Iowa Barnstormers are in AF2. It could be a busy year for the Barnstormers off the field, too, since co-owner Matt Strawn is campaigning to get the chairmanship of the Republican Party of Iowa.