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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Posted February 27, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Posted February 20, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Swati for Congress? Pat Murphy, too!
Democrats say former legislator Swati Dandekar is looking at running for Congress in the First District. She didn’t respond to Cityview’s query, but if she is running she’ll be a [...]
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Posted February 13, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Register reporter calls Obama ‘cult leader.’ More Harkin fallout. Dick Olson cheats death.
More on the fallout from Tom Harkin’s decision not to run again in 2014. It’s becoming more and more clear there will be primaries in both parties as state politicians [...]
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Posted February 06, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
The Conlins and windows. Branstad and Dwolla.
When the rich and the powerful get pissed off (continued): When last we left the great vinyl-window-vs.-wood-window dispute, James and Roxanne Conlin had hired Doug Gross — yeah, that’s pretty [...]
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Posted January 30, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Harkin shakes things up and leaves a legacy. Your Legislature at work: Nipple rings, free food
There have been four spectacular Democrats in Iowa in the past 50 years: Harold Hughes, Neal Smith, Tom Vilsack and Tom Harkin. Harold Hughes fathered the community-college system and liquor [...]
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Posted January 23, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Money is raised for the new downtown Y.
No one is issuing any press releases, but the plan to move the downtown YMCA to the old convention center is all but a done deal. The money is pledged. [...]
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Posted January 16, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Schultz advises some disenfranchised: Vote. Who watches games from Sally Mason’s box?
Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz, who is turning over every rock and checking every driver’s license and database in his search for persons who are voting illegally, is on [...]
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Posted January 09, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Register circulation drops sharply. Some other stuff.
Circulation of the Sunday and daily Des Moines Register has fallen more than 7 percent in the past year, the newspapers’ audit reports show. The drops accelerated after June 1, [...]
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Posted January 02, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Sabbatical: diction in Scandinavian songs; and a losing lawyer shows some balls
Hell hath no fury like a lawyer scorned. The Iowa Supreme Court last week ruled — unanimously — that a Fort Dodge dentist did not unlawfully discriminate against his dental [...]
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Posted December 26, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Huh? Roxanne Conlin hires Doug Gross in lawsuit
Politics makes strange bedfellows.Or bedfellows make strange politics. Roxanne Conlin, high-profile lawyer and onetime Democratic candidate for governor and, later, for senator, and her husband, developer James Conlin, have sued [...]
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