Polk court tells johns: stay away from backpage.com.
At least some of the 30 or so men picked up in those prostitution stings in August at the Ramada Inn on Army Post Road and the Econo Lodge Inn [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in Civic Skinny
Posted January 20, 2016in Civic Skinny
Delay in Water Works suit is bad for Des Moines in Legislature.
Bad news for Des Moines: Federal Judge Mark Bennett’s decision last week to ask the Iowa Supreme Court to rule on some legal issues before he hears the lawsuit the [...]
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Posted January 13, 2016in Civic Skinny
‘Check our progress,’ Branstad said. So Cityview did.
Five years ago, when Gov. Terry Branstad resumed office after a 12-year pause, he said the budget practices of the past — presumably he meant under Govs. Tom Vilsack and [...]
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Posted January 06, 2016in Civic Skinny
Iowa Republicans voted against courthouse for Des Moines.
Two days before Christmas, The Des Moines Register reported that almost a week earlier — it takes a while for news to get from Washington to Des Moines — Congress [...]
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Posted December 23, 2015in Civic Skinny
Merry Christmas!
Twelve drummers drumming… …for Sara Boese at Polk County and Sarai Rice at the Des Moines Area Religious Council, who want to feed the hungry…and John Mauro and the Board [...]
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Posted December 16, 2015in Civic Skinny
What’s in the legal memo advising Hensley on housing vote?
If a city council person thought she might have a conflict of interests on a coming vote on a controversial issue, and if she asked the city lawyer for an [...]
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Posted December 09, 2015in Civic Skinny
The Register’s circulation drops — yet again.
Circulation of The Des Moines Register continues to fall in both the metro area and the state at large. An increase in the numbers of people buying the digital edition [...]
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Posted December 02, 2015in Civic Skinny
Big bonuses are in store for assistant coaches,
The most successful labor union dealing with the state of Iowa has but 13 members. They get big annual raises, are covered by one rather simple document, are rewarded with [...]
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Posted November 25, 2015in Civic Skinny
Sabbaticals: writing a memoir on being an alcoholic;
Your tax dollars at work: Meriam Belli, an associate professor of history at the University of Iowa, will take off the spring semester of 2017 to study “the international funerary [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Civic Skinny
Chet Culver moves closer to a Congressional run.
Former Governor Chet Culver is getting closer to deciding to run for Congress in the Third Congressional District. He is looking at the numbers — the money numbers and the [...]
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