Branstad, TV stations play with the numbers.
Before Terry Branstad got to the real news on Iowa Press the other day — the sigh-of-relief-news that Floppy won’t be in the Historical Building’s doghouse for too long — [...]
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Posted June 26, 2013in Civic Skinny
Posted June 26, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
A revolutionary father
What would the Founding Fathers do? There seems to be a wistful longing these days for when men were men and the likes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and [...]
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Posted June 26, 2013in Duffy
Posted June 24, 2013in Iowa Watchdog
Branstad vetoes pension contributions, prolongs steps towards solvency
DES MOINES – Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad vetoed a bill that would pump an additional $91.3 million of taxpayer dollars into an insolvent pension system for retired peace officers. The [...]
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Posted June 24, 2013in Iowa Watchdog
Iowa maintains Washington, D.C. office for $270,000
DES MOINES – Iowa taxpayers spend more than $270,000 for Gov. Terry Branstad to maintain an office in Washington D.C., according to the Iowa Department of Management. The office, established [...]
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Posted June 21, 2013in Iowa Watchdog
Iowa welfare dollars continue to go unmonitored
DES MOINES – Officials at the Iowa Department of Human Services told a state senator Wednesday they have sufficient safeguards in place to prevent fraud among food stamp recipients, but [...]
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Posted June 21, 2013in Iowa Watchdog
Davenport principal at school involved in cheating changes jobs
DES MOINES – The principal of a Davenport elementary school being investigated for cheating on state tests will move to a different building next school year, according to district officials. [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in Locker Room
National Handball Championships come to Des Moines
Something that could have easily been started by a bored teenager grounded to his room has evolved into an intense competition. Handball is a simple game that requires only a [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in Film Review
Primer for serial killers
“Maniac” 2 stars Not Rated 89 minutes Horror Starring: Elijah Wood, America Olivo, Liane Balaban An irredeemable exploitation horror movie that overplays its subjective point-of-view conceit, “Maniac” will leave viewers [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in Book Review
“Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941”
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Random House March 26, 2013 $30 576 pp. Listening to the audio book of “Volume 3 of the Last Lion,” the biography [...]
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