Dubuque: Leave us out of beer fight
As part of our canon of coverage on the potential takeover of Anheuser-Busch, we quoted Stuart Greenbaum, former dean of Washington University’s Olin Business School, saying the Brewery added civic heft to St. Louis. 
“It’s economic power, it’s jobs, it’s the ability to support amenities, it’s the ability to stage national and international events,” Greenbaum said. “The ability to be a Chicago instead of a Dubuque is what’s at stake here.”
Fair comparison, perhaps — unless, of course, you’re from Dubuque.
Which is exactly what the editorial writers at the Dubuque Telegraph Herald thought when they read that line, inspiring an editorial this week titled “Dubuque does not need an ‘arch’ enemy.”
From the piece:
Most Dubuquers harbor no ill will toward St. Louis. We have the Mississippi River connection. We have a few Cardinals fans around here. We’ve even been known to sample its Anheuser-Busch products. But when a spokesman from St. Louis makes a disparaging remark about Dubuque, well, them’s fightin’ words, as the saying goes.
The editorial then delivers some fighting words of its own:
And, golly, it would be a shame if St. Louis were more like Dubuque. It might have to relinquish some of its titles. Like Most Dangerous City in America in 2006. That was a big one. In 2007, St. Louis got beat out by Detroit as the country’s murder capital. But — good news — St. Louis might be back on top this year. The city already had chalked up 75 murders earlier this month; that’s more than all the homicides in 2003. So St. Louis is on pace for another big year.
Yikes.
If St. Louis wasn’t already under siege from Belgium beer barons, we might have a new civic rival in Iowa.
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Dubuque is a picturesque town with very friendly people.