Merry Christmas!
Twelve drummers drumming… …for Sara Boese at Polk County and Sarai Rice at the Des Moines Area Religious Council, who want to feed the hungry…and John Mauro and the Board [...]
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Posted December 23, 2015in Civic Skinny
Posted December 16, 2015in Civic Skinny
What’s in the legal memo advising Hensley on housing vote?
If a city council person thought she might have a conflict of interests on a coming vote on a controversial issue, and if she asked the city lawyer for an [...]
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Posted December 09, 2015in Civic Skinny
The Register’s circulation drops — yet again.
Circulation of The Des Moines Register continues to fall in both the metro area and the state at large. An increase in the numbers of people buying the digital edition [...]
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Posted December 02, 2015in Civic Skinny
Big bonuses are in store for assistant coaches,
The most successful labor union dealing with the state of Iowa has but 13 members. They get big annual raises, are covered by one rather simple document, are rewarded with [...]
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Posted November 25, 2015in Civic Skinny
Sabbaticals: writing a memoir on being an alcoholic;
Your tax dollars at work: Meriam Belli, an associate professor of history at the University of Iowa, will take off the spring semester of 2017 to study “the international funerary [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Civic Skinny
Chet Culver moves closer to a Congressional run.
Former Governor Chet Culver is getting closer to deciding to run for Congress in the Third Congressional District. He is looking at the numbers — the money numbers and the [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Civic Skinny
Why the downtown Y still has no swimming pool.
He has sold the naming rights for $1 million. He has built the building that will house the Prairie Meadows Pool at the new $40 million Wellmark YMCA downtown. Now [...]
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Posted November 04, 2015in Civic Skinny
High court ponders: When is a meeting a meeting?
Is it a public meeting if the public officials don’t actually meet with one another? That sounds odd, but that’s the central question in an Iowa Supreme Court case that [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Civic Skinny
Challenger Charleston sues Sheriff McCarthy again.
The bad blood between Sheriff Bill McCarthy and Dan Charleston is spilling over into court again. Charleston is a sergeant in the Polk County Sheriff’s Department. He ran against McCarthy [...]
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Posted October 21, 2015in Civic Skinny
Grassley snubs Klinefeldt. Rick Brown is leaving Register.
Nick Klinefeldt is the United States Attorney in Des Moines who is responsible for, among other things, going after drug dealers who violate federal law in this area. Charles Grassley [...]
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