Why the downtown Y still has no swimming pool.
He has sold the naming rights for $1 million. He has built the building that will house the Prairie Meadows Pool at the new $40 million Wellmark YMCA downtown. Now [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Civic Skinny
Posted November 04, 2015in Civic Skinny
High court ponders: When is a meeting a meeting?
Is it a public meeting if the public officials don’t actually meet with one another? That sounds odd, but that’s the central question in an Iowa Supreme Court case that [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Civic Skinny
Challenger Charleston sues Sheriff McCarthy again.
The bad blood between Sheriff Bill McCarthy and Dan Charleston is spilling over into court again. Charleston is a sergeant in the Polk County Sheriff’s Department. He ran against McCarthy [...]
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Posted October 21, 2015in Civic Skinny
Grassley snubs Klinefeldt. Rick Brown is leaving Register.
Nick Klinefeldt is the United States Attorney in Des Moines who is responsible for, among other things, going after drug dealers who violate federal law in this area. Charles Grassley [...]
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Posted October 14, 2015in Civic Skinny
Jerry Crawford v. Doug Gross in court? Not this round.
It sounded too good to be true. And, alas, it was. The best show in town this fall could have been on Nov. 5 at Drake University, with lawyers Jerry [...]
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Posted October 07, 2015in Civic Skinny
No taxes are levied on $2.5 billion of Polk property.
The National Pork Producers is headquartered in a handsome building in Clive. It is assessed at $3,291,000. The Fraternal Order of Eagles has a 6,000-square-foot lodge on Bloomfield Road assessed [...]
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Posted September 30, 2015in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Big payday set for Mell Meredith and Tom Meredith.
Mell Meredith and Tom Meredith — the two senior members of the founding family of Meredith Corp. — control Meredith stock that will be swapped for $182 million in cash [...]
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Posted September 09, 2015in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
It’s final: Bubu Palo didn’t rape Hunter Elizabeth Breshears.
Iowa State University’s three-year fight against basketball player Bubu Palo ended last week in the Court of Appeals. Once again, Palo won. And, finally, the university is giving up. It [...]
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Posted September 02, 2015in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
McCoy eyes John Mauro’s seat. Hagenow gets strong foe.
State Sen. Matt McCoy, who has decided not to seek the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Third District, now plans to run for Polk County Supervisor in three years [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Civic Skinny
Slipknot widow accuses artist of theft, trespass.
The widow of Paul Gray, the masked Slipknot bassist who died of a drug overdose five years ago, is suing a sort-of-well-known Des Moines artist she hired to help produce [...]
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