Who Makes What:
The conductor of the Des Moines Symphony makes about $30,000 more a year than the Des Moines police chief. The president of Des Moines University makes about $75,000 less than [...]
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Posted July 17, 2013in Civic Skinny
Posted July 10, 2013in Civic Skinny
Kay Runge keeps Mark Braun off committee;
The board of Iowa Public Radio has named a three-person search committee to find a replacement for the ousted Mary Grace Herrington. Doug West chairs it, and Warren Madden and [...]
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Posted July 03, 2013in Civic Skinny
GOP’s Linder is a thief, but how tall is she?
April Gayle Linder is a member of the Polk County GOP leadership team. She is an executive committee member for the group. She serves on the planning committee for Polk [...]
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Posted June 26, 2013in Civic Skinny
Branstad, TV stations play with the numbers.
Before Terry Branstad got to the real news on Iowa Press the other day — the sigh-of-relief-news that Floppy won’t be in the Historical Building’s doghouse for too long — [...]
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Posted June 19, 2013in Civic Skinny
State legal fees hit $460,000 in Godfrey case
When last we left Christopher Godfrey, the only openly gay department head in the Branstad administration, he was toiling away as head of the state Workers’ Compensation office, though he [...]
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Posted June 12, 2013in Civic Skinny
Register circulation plummets (again). GOP ‘tickle pickle.’ Luebke is in prison.
Circulation at The Des Moines Register is in a free-fall. Far fewer people are buying the print edition, where subscribers are also forced to pay for the electronic edition whether [...]
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Posted June 05, 2013in Civic Skinny
Where’s Aikman? Toyota sues Tirrell
Remember when Marty Tirrell brought Troy Aikman to town a year or so ago to do promotional appearances for Toyota of Des Moines? No? Neither does Toyota of Des Moines. [...]
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Posted May 29, 2013in Civic Skinny
IPR board plotted Herrington exit before vote
Despite a precautionary email from a member of the board of Iowa Public Radio, the board leadership was working out the details of firing chief executive Mary Grace Herrington before [...]
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Posted May 22, 2013in Civic Skinny
Legal bills for IPR. Speaker Cownie?
The Des Moines Register is advertising for a new publisher, but apparently not in The Des Moines Register. An ad on www.linkedin.com seeks a president and publisher for the Register [...]
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Posted May 15, 2013in Civic Skinny
Leach is leaving; Appel is re-reconsidering;
No one seems to have noticed, but Jim Leach has resigned as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a job he has held since August of 2009. Leach, [...]
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