Merry Christmas…..
Twelve drummers drumming… …but not as loud as the Isiserettes for new Drake basketball coach Jenny Lillis Baranczyk…for each and every Nada…and banker Kim Gillespie, now Kim Willis…for the two [...]
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Posted December 19, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Posted December 12, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Dan Miller and Gerry Spence: Two pros hang it up
You don’t stop and think much about Iowa Public Television. It’s just there. There with the news, with the debates, with “Iowa Press” and “Market to Market.” There at the [...]
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Posted December 05, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Sue Dvorsky leaving; Bobby Kaufmann’s record
Sue Dvorsky is stepping down as chair of the state Democratic Party, Cityview has learned, and executive director Norm Sterzenbach is leaving as well. Party leaders will meet next weekend [...]
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Posted November 28, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Ferentz gets $100,000 raise; Rhoads misses $200,000 bonus
Don’t feel too bad for Kirk Ferentz. Sure, the stony-faced, gum-chewing University of Iowa football coach won only four games this fall, giving the Hawkeyes their worst season since 2000. [...]
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Posted November 21, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
School kids skip out on debt. Grassley tweets.
The Des Moines school system has a lot of deadbeat kids. Or maybe nice kids with deadbeat parents. Or maybe deadbeat kids with deadbeat parents. They’re skipping out on the [...]
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Posted November 14, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
What it all means in 1,636 (or so) words
Mike Gronstal is more powerful than ever. Gay marriage is a dead issue. Bob Vander Plaats is irrelevant. Bruce Rastetter has wasted a lot of money. Tom Harkin now has [...]
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Posted November 07, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Tales from the courtroom, the newsroom and a hurricane
Gerry Spence put on a show last week in Judge Robert Pratt’s federal courtroom. The flamboyant lawyer is representing Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee, who spent 26 years in prison [...]
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Posted October 31, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Law dean: ‘I’m not purely a rubber stamp.’
A friend — a droll and witty man who once was well-known in central Iowa — has Alzheimer’s Disease, and he knows it. The other day, a couple of his [...]
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Posted October 24, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Political money train goes in and out of Iowa
The race between Congressional incumbents Leonard Boswell and Tom Latham must be close. Or, at least, the disbursing agents in Washington must think it’s close. Between Oct. 2 and Oct. [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Des Moines streetcars still run on memory lane
I remember as a little boy riding the streetcars that ran down the middle of Ingersoll. I remember riding the Crocker streetcar with my grandmother to the very end of [...]
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