McCoy asks to join Nahas suit against other supervisors.
In passing, he says Hilton Hotel will lose $8 million this year. In case there was any doubt, Polk County Supervisor Matt McCoy proved this week that the board is [...]
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Posted September 29, 2021in Civic Skinny
Posted September 01, 2021in Civic Skinny
The most interesting man in the NFL. Sensory garden opens. Census stats released. Lunches.
Who is the only player in NFL history to throw a touchdown pass for eight different teams? The same person who will soon, in all likelihood, have done so for [...]
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Posted August 04, 2021in Civic Skinny
Coach Jennie Baranczyk’s deal with U of Oklahoma. Supervisors await redistricting. Courthouse tops out.
What did it take for the University of Oklahoma to lure basketball coach Jennie Lillis Baranczyk away from Drake University? Here’s what, based on a freedom-of-information request made by CITYVIEW [...]
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Posted June 30, 2021in Civic Skinny
Why have some events returned, but not others? Dunshee resigns. Cowboy dies. Catholics return.
No state high school baseball tournament this year at Principal Park? You read that correctly. But will the Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) bring the tournament back to the [...]
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Posted June 02, 2021in Civic Skinny
Great mentions and trial balloons: What’s going on in Iowa politics?
Reporter Jim Flansburg’s mind and notebooks were filled with the odd fact, the strong suspicion, the half-story that he never could develop into a piece that would stand alone in [...]
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Posted March 23, 2021in Civic Skinny
Jim Nahas is fired by county, and it’s a mess. He lawyers up as supervisors hunker down.
Jim Nahas has been fired as head of human resources for Polk County. It’s complicated, it’s messy, it’s unusual — it’s hard to get fired by the county — and, [...]
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Posted March 03, 2021in Civic Skinny
Food fight at Fong’s. Register’s circulation drops again. Court okays Dico-city deal. Ernst lines up with Hawley.
Print circulation of The Des Moines Register continues to plummet. Reported digital circulation is holding more or less steady, but at a low level, but internal numbers show it rising [...]
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Posted January 20, 2021in Civic Skinny
Tirrell gets 41 months. Here is his life story.
Looking fresh and healthy behind his University of Iowa facemask, Marty Tirrell, who led a complicated life as a boisterous sports-radio host and a glib conman and who was an [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Civic Skinny
Your tuition dollars at work. High-end home sales. New jobs for Dan Finney and Jason Clayworth.
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa, where she has taught for eight years. She makes $75,204 a year, according to state records. [...]
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Posted December 02, 2020in Civic Skinny
Merry Christmas
Twelve drummers drumming… …for Helen Eddy, the very busy Polk County health commissioner…and Karen Schunk and all the other women (and men) who make and give away masks to help [...]
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