Posted November 19, 2014in Civic Skinny
Six weeks before Dahl’s filed for protection under the bankruptcy laws this month, it quit paying its former chief executive the severance negotiated when he left the grocery chain earlier [...]
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Posted November 12, 2014in Civic Skinny
The gleaming new downtown Wellmark YMCA suddenly has a $6 million construction shortfall. It didn’t get some special federal tax credits that it was planning on and that its construction [...]
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Posted November 05, 2014in Civic Skinny
Lawyer Jeff Stein withdrew his application to be executive director of the Iowa Public Information Board just in time. He was about to be booted off the list of four [...]
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Posted October 29, 2014in Civic Skinny
Three years ago, John Pavone won a $10 million judgment against Gary Kirke. Now, Pavone is suing Kirke again, on the same issue. Pavone claimed — and the Iowa Supreme [...]
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Posted October 22, 2014in Civic Skinny
The opening for police chief of Des Moines was posted on Friday, and since it’s a Civil Service job, it’s an elaborate process to choose a chief. There will be [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Civic Skinny
Some numbers: At the end of last week, there were 835 inmates in the Polk County jail. Of those, 128 had been in jail for less than a week — [...]
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Posted October 08, 2014in Civic Skinny
The United States Department of Labor is checking with some current and former Des Moines Register reporters to see if they were paid for all the hours they worked. The [...]
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Posted October 06, 2014in Civic Skinny
The United States Department of Labor is checking with some current and former Des Moines Register reporters to see if they were paid for all the hours they worked. The [...]
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Posted October 01, 2014in Civic Skinny
Randy Evans, the editor of the editorial pages of The Des Moines Register who has spent the better part of his life in the newsroom, is leaving the newspaper in [...]
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Posted September 24, 2014in Civic Skinny
The restructured Des Moines Register newsroom will “deliver much more,” Amalie Nash told the newspaper’s readers Tuesday, but the newspaper will be delivering that “much more” with much less. The [...]
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