Register editor: ‘content coach’
[Cityview’s Civic Skinny column on Sept. 3 about changes in the newsroom at The Des Moines Register] contains several errors…. In terms of the process, decisions will NOT be made [...]
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Posted September 10, 2014in Your View
Posted September 03, 2014in Your View
Lapping it up
I am the first to admit that I have no expertise in print advertising, and at 57 years of age I may not be the intended target audience, but did [...]
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Posted August 20, 2014in Your View
Don’t make me come over there
OK, Cityview, what’s up with the tits issue? You can’t honestly tell me you’ve run out of sacred-cow news to break in this town. If you wanted to go on [...]
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Posted August 13, 2014in Your View
Moses would have needed a forklift
Several weeks ago, Civic Skinny shined the light on some of the goofiness in the Iowa Republican Party platform. I have been waiting for a similar review and enlightenment on the Iowa Democratic Party platform [...]
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Posted August 06, 2014in Your View
Replace property tax with income-based system
The amount of Des Moines properties exempt from property taxation was reported in May to have increased 38 percent in the last 10 years. This ever-present problem has frequently caused [...]
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Posted July 30, 2014in Your View
Library should buy local
In the “paid for by taxpayers in Des Moines” column last week, it appears Eurest Services of Illinois was paid nearly $5,000 for janitorial services for the Public Library of [...]
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Posted July 23, 2014in Your View
Snake oil always sells
Civic Skinny (July 17) asked if the $40 million settlement with buyers club was an indication that the 864,000 adult Iowans, “Are so gullible… and can be snookered in a [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in Your View
Appalled by our poll
I want to tell you how appalled I am that you would include a poll with an option to “Shoot to kill” innocent people. The situation of people coming to [...]
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Posted July 09, 2014in Your View
The first shall be last, and the last shall be first
State Senator and 3rd District Congressional candidate Brad Zaun has made it known that he may leave the GOP and run for Congress as an independent. He was first in [...]
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Posted June 18, 2014in Your View
Not about gender
“I need a woman” and “Modern day David?” (Your View, June 4) are two reasons why more people need to know there is a third choice for governor in 2014: [...]
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