Fairness and honesty? I enjoyed your article recently on the Civic Skinny titled “Ferentz gets $100,000 raise; Rhoads misses $200,000 bonus” (Civic Skinny, Nov. 29). I would have liked to have seen the comparison with the one remaining state school University of Northern Iowa.
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Posted December 05, 2012in Your View
Posted December 05, 2012in Duffy
Posted December 05, 2012in Sound Stage
Ladies of Rock
Rae and the Honeybees are, in a word, delightful. Titular front-woman Rae Fehring is a nakedly honest storyteller and has a silky-smooth voice that’s more than capable of handling the emotional swings in her songs. Kicking off a show at Gas Lamp in front of two bands known for having
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Posted December 05, 2012in Geek Chic
Set phasers for Star Trek Screening
Last week’s meet-up at Jordan Creek’s Century 20 theater was a great start to what will hopefully be a new tradition. Trekkies, redshirts and Klingons from all over the area beamed down to the theater to see Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew on the big screen in preparation
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Posted December 05, 2012in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Polk County
Amount: $1,674 To: A Rifkin Company (Wilkes-Barre, Penn.) For: Purchase of posts and barriers to rope off election sites. Amount: $777.70 To: ASFCME Local 1868 For: Reimbursement payment for half of Amanda Tyler’s earnings who provides support staffing ($22.22 per hour). Amount: $4,164.25 To: Allendan Seed Company For:
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Posted December 05, 2012in Recent Posts, Sound Check
CD Reviews
The Austin Taft Soundtrack ‘War of the Songs of Light Against the Songs of Darkness’ Independent “War of the Songs…” is a concept album, and Taft explores a lot of heavy themes over the course of its 80 minutes. All the greatest hits are here: war, love, hate, forgiveness. Taft
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Posted December 05, 2012in Recent Posts, Sound Notes
Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week
The final numbers are in for Kingston VanderKallen’s benefit show, played at House of Bricks in November. The event — put together by Lazer 103.3’s Samantha Knight and Metro Concerts Live’s Chad Willey, and featuring over a dozen local bands, artists and businesses — raised $3,417.28 for the VanderKallen family.
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Posted December 05, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Sue Dvorsky leaving; Bobby Kaufmann’s record
Sue Dvorsky is stepping down as chair of the state Democratic Party, Cityview has learned, and executive director Norm Sterzenbach is leaving as well. Party leaders will meet next weekend to pick the next chair, but in all likelihood the chairmanship will revert to being a non-salaried post. There’s some
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Posted December 05, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Death, rebirth and…death?
‘Hunted’ comes to a stunning conclusion While other critics were obsessing on “Homeland,” I urged you to watch “Hunted,” an even better spy series about a troubled female heroine. After this week’s thrilling conclusion (Friday, 9 p.m., Cinemax), I know you will want to thank me in some way. Chocolates
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Posted December 05, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Selzer: unchurched ‘swung’ Iowa election
The million-dollar question is: What do you do with this information? Featured as a speaker at a TEDxDesMoines event Sunday aimed at women, nationally-respected pollster J. Ann Selzer rolled out some spectacularly stunning numbers on the recent presidential election voting in Iowa. It was worth the $12 admission — if
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