Besieged Dr. Baldi sells Foster Drive home.
Two homes in the suburbs have recently sold at big prices. On July 19, Marcus Hasting paid David E. Short $1,520,000 for a 5,122-square-foot home at 1732 Glenleven Terrace in [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Civic Skinny
Posted August 28, 2013in Civic Skinny
Odd questions for would-be judges.
The 17-member Iowa Judicial Nominating Commission met last week to interview the 22 persons who want to succeed Larry Eisenhauer on the Iowa Court of Appeals. It sent three names [...]
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Posted August 21, 2013in Civic Skinny
Younkers project is set to start.
It looks like the renovation of the Younkers store downtown — rumored for what seems like decades — is really happening. Two bond issues, totaling $24,450,000, are coming to market [...]
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Posted August 14, 2013in Civic Skinny
Eric Branstad’s medical plan. Bob Donley’s big payday.
Eric Branstad, the governor’s son, and his wife apparently have their own inexpensive medical-care plan. It’s called the “Why Bother to Pay?” plan. In January of this year, Associated Anesthesiologists [...]
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Posted August 07, 2013in Civic Skinny
More layoffs at the Register. Branstad buys a house.
The Des Moines Register is making more news than it is reporting — and it isn’t reporting the news it is making. The newspaper last week laid off five persons [...]
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Posted July 31, 2013in Civic Skinny
Price of your Register is going up. Probably.
The price of The Des Moines Register is going up. Again. Here’s the gobbledegook start of a memo sent to all Register employees late Friday: “We wanted to make you [...]
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Posted July 24, 2013in Civic Skinny
Paige Fiedler wails; Judge Bennett concurs.
There’s an old joke among lawyers: “What does a plaintiff’s lawyer say when he loses a case?” “Next case!” But what Paige Fiedler does is rant and, in her own [...]
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Posted July 17, 2013in Civic Skinny
Who Makes What:
The conductor of the Des Moines Symphony makes about $30,000 more a year than the Des Moines police chief. The president of Des Moines University makes about $75,000 less than [...]
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Posted July 10, 2013in Civic Skinny
Kay Runge keeps Mark Braun off committee;
The board of Iowa Public Radio has named a three-person search committee to find a replacement for the ousted Mary Grace Herrington. Doug West chairs it, and Warren Madden and [...]
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Posted July 03, 2013in Civic Skinny
GOP’s Linder is a thief, but how tall is she?
April Gayle Linder is a member of the Polk County GOP leadership team. She is an executive committee member for the group. She serves on the planning committee for Polk [...]
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