Remembering Bill Knapp
One afternoon 50 years or so ago, when I was president of The Des Moines Register and Tribune, Bill Knapp called me. “What are you doing?” he asked, and before [...]
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Posted December 03, 2025in Gartner Commentary, Guest Commentary
Posted November 01, 2023in Gartner Commentary
When the corner of 6th and Locust housed 136 doctors and 67 dentists
When I was a boy — and that was not recently — I would take the bus downtown one afternoon a week to get allergy shots from Dr. Lou Noun. [...]
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Posted July 09, 2018in Gartner Commentary
Bob Ray
Bob Ray became governor by luck. He remained governor because he was a very decent man. He was beloved not because he was a visionary leader, but because he was [...]
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Posted November 15, 2016in Gartner Commentary
Comment: The Elections
What now for the Republicans in the state of Iowa? The Iowa Republican Party has never been stronger. It now controls both houses of the Legislature, the Governor’s office, both [...]
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Twelve drummers drumming…
…To the nation’s 14,000 air-traffic controllers — especially those who kept working without pay after the politicians closed down the government while continuing to get their own pay…and to the [...]
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