Posted March 26, 2013in Uncategorized
Posted March 26, 2013in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog
Iowa lawyers rack up the miles, leaving rural cities to pay at the pump
DES MOINES — Iowa spent more than half-million taxpayer dollars last fiscal year to pay mileage for out-of-town attorneys who represent the poor, even though local attorneys were available and willing to do the work, state figures show. The state spent some $30.5 million last fiscal year to hire contract
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Posted March 25, 2013in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog
Iowa gov: no email record of $200 million gift to Egyptian firm
DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad’s attorney claims that no emails from the governor over the past nine months contain key words that could pertain to the controversial deal to lure an Egyptian company by providing more than half a billion dollars in tax incentives. Iowa Watchdog requested access to
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Posted March 21, 2013in Uncategorized
Posted March 20, 2013in Your View
Why doesn’t the governor try using Medicaid?
Medicaid is state-funded, and so is the governor’s health insurance. If the state-provided care is so good as to not need federal intervention, why doesn’t the governor use it himself? If he were on IowaCare, he could be grateful that he serves most of his time near Broadlawns in Des
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Posted March 20, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood
Morphine dreams
When the pain is too great, when it all is just too much, the doctors prescribe morphine. It is an interesting substance — this derivative from opium. In the early 1800s, a German pharmacist named the drug morphine after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. No doubt, dreams are what
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Posted March 20, 2013in Duffy
Posted March 20, 2013in Sound Stage
Band Bombshell Birthday
Local music blog Band Bombshell celebrated its one-year anniversary at Vaudeville Mews last Thursday with a show that featured three local acts: Gloom Balloon, Dustin Smith and The Sunday Silos and Volcano Boys. I’ll admit: I don’t get everything that Patrick Tape Fleming and Chris Ford do. When the former
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Posted March 20, 2013in Belly Up To...
Regress into a night of play at Brecks
Bar staff and patrons care about their health at Brecks. For example: “We drink so our livers have a job to do — we don’t want the little guy getting lazy,” is one of the bar’s recent Facebook status posts. How thoughtful they are of one of the human body’s
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Posted March 20, 2013in On The Tube
Murder? Madness? Maybe
‘Phil Spector’ tries to humanize the notorious music producer “Phil Spector” (Sunday, 8 p.m., HBO) has a startling premise: that the freaky music producer might be a human being. Against the backdrop of his 2007 trial for murder, writer-director David Mamet tries to figure out what makes Spector tick. The
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