Posted October 29, 2014in Civic Skinny
Three years ago, John Pavone won a $10 million judgment against Gary Kirke. Now, Pavone is suing Kirke again, on the same issue. Pavone claimed — and the Iowa Supreme [...]
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Posted October 22, 2014in Civic Skinny
The opening for police chief of Des Moines was posted on Friday, and since it’s a Civil Service job, it’s an elaborate process to choose a chief. There will be [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Civic Skinny
Some numbers: At the end of last week, there were 835 inmates in the Polk County jail. Of those, 128 had been in jail for less than a week — [...]
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Posted October 08, 2014in Civic Skinny
The United States Department of Labor is checking with some current and former Des Moines Register reporters to see if they were paid for all the hours they worked. The [...]
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Posted October 06, 2014in Civic Skinny
The United States Department of Labor is checking with some current and former Des Moines Register reporters to see if they were paid for all the hours they worked. The [...]
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Posted October 01, 2014in Civic Skinny
Randy Evans, the editor of the editorial pages of The Des Moines Register who has spent the better part of his life in the newsroom, is leaving the newspaper in [...]
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Posted September 24, 2014in Civic Skinny
The restructured Des Moines Register newsroom will “deliver much more,” Amalie Nash told the newspaper’s readers Tuesday, but the newspaper will be delivering that “much more” with much less. The [...]
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Posted September 17, 2014in Civic Skinny
Unless something goes awry within the next few days, Scott Sanders soon will be the city manager of Des Moines. The council is going through the motions of another broad [...]
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Posted September 10, 2014in Civic Skinny
Tom Harkin is on his final lap. Instead of spending his days and nights campaigning for a sixth term in the United States Senate, he and his wife and children [...]
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Posted September 03, 2014in Civic Skinny
Democrats will continue to control Polk County for the next four years. That was assured at 5 p.m. on Wednesday of last week, the deadline to file for county offices. [...]
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