Branstad, TV stations play with the numbers.
Before Terry Branstad got to the real news on Iowa Press the other day — the sigh-of-relief-news that Floppy won’t be in the Historical Building’s doghouse for too long — [...]
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Posted June 26, 2013in Civic Skinny
Posted June 19, 2013in Civic Skinny
State legal fees hit $460,000 in Godfrey case
When last we left Christopher Godfrey, the only openly gay department head in the Branstad administration, he was toiling away as head of the state Workers’ Compensation office, though he [...]
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Posted June 12, 2013in Civic Skinny
Register circulation plummets (again). GOP ‘tickle pickle.’ Luebke is in prison.
Circulation at The Des Moines Register is in a free-fall. Far fewer people are buying the print edition, where subscribers are also forced to pay for the electronic edition whether [...]
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Posted June 05, 2013in Civic Skinny
Where’s Aikman? Toyota sues Tirrell
Remember when Marty Tirrell brought Troy Aikman to town a year or so ago to do promotional appearances for Toyota of Des Moines? No? Neither does Toyota of Des Moines. [...]
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Posted May 29, 2013in Civic Skinny
IPR board plotted Herrington exit before vote
Despite a precautionary email from a member of the board of Iowa Public Radio, the board leadership was working out the details of firing chief executive Mary Grace Herrington before [...]
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Posted May 22, 2013in Civic Skinny
Legal bills for IPR. Speaker Cownie?
The Des Moines Register is advertising for a new publisher, but apparently not in The Des Moines Register. An ad on www.linkedin.com seeks a president and publisher for the Register [...]
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Posted May 15, 2013in Civic Skinny
Leach is leaving; Appel is re-reconsidering;
No one seems to have noticed, but Jim Leach has resigned as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a job he has held since August of 2009. Leach, [...]
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Posted May 08, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Changes at Channel 8. Lawsuits. A dress code.
No shoes, no shirt, no paycheck: There will be a dress code for Des Moines Register workers after they move to Capital Square next month. They’re being told about it [...]
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Posted May 01, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Judge Bennett calls a litigant a jerk;
Edward P. Hagen is an obstetrician who practiced in Sioux City with Siouxland Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.C. from 1993 until November of 2009, when he was fired by his three [...]
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Posted April 24, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Iowa P***** Radio (cont.); Nancy Sebring’s ‘underware’
Iowa Public Radio has a “commitment to openness and transparency,” lawyer Wayne Reames told The Des Moines Register the other day. Oh. But, of course, it is not subject to [...]
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