Bubu’s plight: It’s about justice, not basketball.
Consider the odd case of Bubu Palo and university justice. Bubu Palo was, or maybe is, a basketball player at Iowa State. He went to Ames High School, and he [...]
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Posted January 22, 2014in Civic Skinny
Posted January 15, 2014in Civic Skinny
Register’s circulation plummets. WHO drops Deace. Chiodo takes on Bisignano in south-side shoot-out.
Rick Green, The Des Moines Register’s new publisher, has his work cut out for him. The latest audited figures show a continued steep drop in the circulation of the print [...]
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Posted January 08, 2014in Civic Skinny
Franchise-fee lawyers appeal for more fees. John Deeth is funny. Godfrey will get his day.
The lawyers who beat the city in the franchise-fee case aren’t satisfied with their $7 million in fees awarded by Polk County District Judge Joel Novak. On the day after [...]
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Posted December 31, 2013in Civic Skinny
Rick Clark to resign as city manager
Des Moines City Manager Rick Clark will retire later this year and move to the Cleveland area, where his wife, Mary Grace Herrington, has taken a job in public broadcasting. [...]
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Posted December 26, 2013in Civic Skinny
The suddenly open Congressional seat. More woe for Tirrell. Tom Miller and gays.
Here’s an astounding fact: The last time there was a Congressional race in Polk County without an incumbent seeking re-election was in 1940. GOP Rep. Cassius Dowell, a Des Moines [...]
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Posted December 18, 2013in Civic Skinny
Merry Christmas, one and all…
Twelve drummers drumming… …oh so vigorously for Phil Dorweiler and his many Kirke in-laws, especially Bob and Laurel…loud enough to be heard through vinyl windows for James and Roxanne Conlin…to [...]
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Posted December 11, 2013in Civic Skinny
Tyler Olson flounders. Nigerian scam works. Tirrell owes $96,656. Field of Nightmares?
“What I’ve always really most admired about Tyler is he’s a family guy,” Tyler Olson’s wife, Sarah, says in a campaign video supporting her husband’s effort to get the Democratic [...]
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Posted December 04, 2013in Civic Skinny
Exactly why was Martha Fagg fired? And did Judge Rose say ‘screw’ or….?
Were matters so out of hand in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Cedar Rapids three years ago that one lawyer there feared for her safety, feared that she might be [...]
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Posted November 27, 2013in Civic Skinny
Sabbaticals: Dolly Parton, ‘Cantor of Swabia,’ and children sleeping with their parents
Your tax and tuition dollars at work: University of Iowa Music Professor Christine Getz will spend the fall semester next year in Milan, Italy, preparing “a critical edition with historical [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Civic Skinny
Art Cullen has kind words for Sally Mason
There’s still a multi-million-dollar shortfall in the financing scheme for a new convention hotel near Hy-Vee Hall, but the gap will close and a 450-room hotel definitely will be built, [...]
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