Changes at Channel 8. Lawsuits. A dress code.
No shoes, no shirt, no paycheck: There will be a dress code for Des Moines Register workers after they move to Capital Square next month. They’re being told about it [...]
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Posted May 08, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Posted May 01, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Judge Bennett calls a litigant a jerk;
Edward P. Hagen is an obstetrician who practiced in Sioux City with Siouxland Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.C. from 1993 until November of 2009, when he was fired by his three [...]
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Posted April 24, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Iowa P***** Radio (cont.); Nancy Sebring’s ‘underware’
Iowa Public Radio has a “commitment to openness and transparency,” lawyer Wayne Reames told The Des Moines Register the other day. Oh. But, of course, it is not subject to [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
A history lesson as James Harlan comes home to Iowa — again
James Harlan has been evicted from the Capitol in Washington and is being sent back to Iowa. It isn’t the first time he has been sent home. Harlan was a [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
How ISU spent about $1 million at the Liberty Bowl
The Des Moines Register had a little two-paragraph item in the sports section the other day that said Iowa State University made $15,366 from its participation in the Liberty Bowl. [...]
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Posted April 03, 2013in Civic Skinny
Appel for Congress? Interim Regent Lang?
Will Staci Appel become the first woman to represent Iowa in Congress? The former legislator tells Cityview she is “strongly considering” running for the seat now held by Republican Tom [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
The mess gets messier at Iowa Public Radio
Maybe Iowa Public Radio should do a special report on organizations that abuse and misuse the Iowa Open Meetings and Open Records laws. The reporter wouldn’t have to leave the [...]
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Posted March 13, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
A little history about Osage. But not much other stuff.
Cityview: “Dear [Rep. Josh] Byrnes. I write a column in Cityview, which sometimes is about politics. I’m told that you have told a few of your colleagues that you are [...]
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Posted March 06, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Herrington was fired at an illegal meeting
Maybe the board of Iowa Public Radio could have screwed things up more when it met and fired IPR chief executive Mary Grace Herrington last week, but it’s hard to [...]
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Posted February 27, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Marty Tirrell sues.
Marty Tirrell, the very loud sports-radio guy, is suing the owners of Toyota of Des Moines, the car dealership that housed his radio show on 1700 AM. He says his [...]
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