Merry Christmas…
Twelve drummers drumming… …to recognize the great work done by Anawim Housing…and Margaret Toomey, who has done so much for so many…and the folks at Art Force Iowa, who change [...]
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Posted November 30, 2016in Civic Skinny
Posted October 21, 2016in Civic Skinny
Your ISU alumni dollars at work: $1.1 million was paid to foundation bosses Leath ordered fired without cause.
The Iowa State University Foundation has spent more than $1.1 million to buy out the contracts of two foundation presidents fired by university President Steve Leath. The two men were [...]
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Posted October 02, 2016in Civic Skinny
U of I cuts graduation threshold in Ferentz contract. And for $4.5 million (plus), he agrees not to complain.
That huge new contract the University of Iowa has given football coach Kirk Ferentz has a new wrinkle or two. Besides paying him a minimum of $4.5 million in its [...]
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Posted August 31, 2016in Civic Skinny
Nationwide warrant issued for Luebke after 8th OWI arrest. Frank Severino leaving county.
UPDATE 8/29/2016: Steve Luebke was arrested for parole violation and sent back to Polk County jail on Saturday, Aug. 27. On Sunday, the court ordered him to be transferred to the [...]
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Posted August 10, 2016in Civic Skinny
The Register’s circulation takes another big fall. Mezvinskys, Kushners, Clintons and Trumps.
For the first time in close to 100 years — since the early 1920s — fewer than 100,000 people across the state now are getting the Des Moines Sunday Register [...]
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Posted July 27, 2016in Civic Skinny
Pappajohn and Noyce to get little-known Iowa Award. Judge has $228,000 in the bank, Grassley $5.3 million.
John Pappajohn and the late Robert Noyce will be given the Iowa Award later this year. The Iowa Award is the highest honor the state gives to a citizen, though [...]
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Posted July 20, 2016in Civic Skinny
Gabus wants its money back for a Y that wasn’t built. New claim against Blunck. Tirrell’s ex-wives speak out.
The Gabus Family Foundation — that’s Gabus, as in Gene Gabus and Gabus Motors — wants back the $300,000 it donated to build a new YMCA in Grimes. Plans [...]
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Posted July 13, 2016in Civic Skinny
Others hover as IRS takes on Prairie Meadows. County, the landlord and beneficiary, has key role.
The fight between Prairie Meadows and the Internal Revenue Service could last years. It will cost a jackpot in legal fees. And it can’t be settled unless the Polk County [...]
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Posted July 06, 2016in Civic Skinny
A murky formula for athletes’ graduation rates. ‘No impropriety’ in Rosen’s resignation from ACLU.
The six-year graduation success rate for basketball players who entered Iowa State University in 2008 was 75 percent. That’s pretty impressive. Except the actual graduation rate was [...]
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Posted June 29, 2016in Civic Skinny
Platforms: Puppy mills, legal drugs, and back to 1913. Culver gets a Y job, with a little help from his friends.
State political platforms mean absolutely nothing, practical politicians agree, but the planks often show where the power lies in the parties. And occasionally a plank is so bizarre it can [...]
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