Who, what, when, where, why and how
WHO…. …is teaching your children at the state universities? Not necessarily the faculty. At the University of Iowa, only 45 percent of total undergraduate student credit hours were taught by [...]
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Posted September 25, 2013in Civic Skinny
Posted September 18, 2013in Civic Skinny
Runge, Neu and Madden leaving IPR board.
Kay Runge is resigning as chairwoman of the board of Iowa Public Radio and is leaving the organization, and the other two remaining original board members — Art Neu and [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in Civic Skinny
State’s outlay on Godfrey case nears $500,000.
A reader writes: “You have to credit Governor [Terry] Branstad for using his national recruiting resources and making full consideration of hiring females and minorities when he swiftly named Larry [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Civic Skinny
Besieged Dr. Baldi sells Foster Drive home.
Two homes in the suburbs have recently sold at big prices. On July 19, Marcus Hasting paid David E. Short $1,520,000 for a 5,122-square-foot home at 1732 Glenleven Terrace in [...]
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Posted August 28, 2013in Civic Skinny
Odd questions for would-be judges.
The 17-member Iowa Judicial Nominating Commission met last week to interview the 22 persons who want to succeed Larry Eisenhauer on the Iowa Court of Appeals. It sent three names [...]
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Posted August 21, 2013in Civic Skinny
Younkers project is set to start.
It looks like the renovation of the Younkers store downtown — rumored for what seems like decades — is really happening. Two bond issues, totaling $24,450,000, are coming to market [...]
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Posted August 14, 2013in Civic Skinny
Eric Branstad’s medical plan. Bob Donley’s big payday.
Eric Branstad, the governor’s son, and his wife apparently have their own inexpensive medical-care plan. It’s called the “Why Bother to Pay?” plan. In January of this year, Associated Anesthesiologists [...]
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Posted August 07, 2013in Civic Skinny
More layoffs at the Register. Branstad buys a house.
The Des Moines Register is making more news than it is reporting — and it isn’t reporting the news it is making. The newspaper last week laid off five persons [...]
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Posted July 31, 2013in Civic Skinny
Price of your Register is going up. Probably.
The price of The Des Moines Register is going up. Again. Here’s the gobbledegook start of a memo sent to all Register employees late Friday: “We wanted to make you [...]
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Posted July 24, 2013in Civic Skinny
Paige Fiedler wails; Judge Bennett concurs.
There’s an old joke among lawyers: “What does a plaintiff’s lawyer say when he loses a case?” “Next case!” But what Paige Fiedler does is rant and, in her own [...]
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