A history lesson as James Harlan comes home to Iowa — again
James Harlan has been evicted from the Capitol in Washington and is being sent back to Iowa. It isn’t the first time he has been sent home. Harlan was a [...]
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Posted April 17, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Posted April 10, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
How ISU spent about $1 million at the Liberty Bowl
The Des Moines Register had a little two-paragraph item in the sports section the other day that said Iowa State University made $15,366 from its participation in the Liberty Bowl. [...]
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Posted April 03, 2013in Civic Skinny
Appel for Congress? Interim Regent Lang?
Will Staci Appel become the first woman to represent Iowa in Congress? The former legislator tells Cityview she is “strongly considering” running for the seat now held by Republican Tom [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
The mess gets messier at Iowa Public Radio
Maybe Iowa Public Radio should do a special report on organizations that abuse and misuse the Iowa Open Meetings and Open Records laws. The reporter wouldn’t have to leave the [...]
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Posted March 13, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
A little history about Osage. But not much other stuff.
Cityview: “Dear [Rep. Josh] Byrnes. I write a column in Cityview, which sometimes is about politics. I’m told that you have told a few of your colleagues that you are [...]
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Posted March 06, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Herrington was fired at an illegal meeting
Maybe the board of Iowa Public Radio could have screwed things up more when it met and fired IPR chief executive Mary Grace Herrington last week, but it’s hard to [...]
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Posted February 27, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Marty Tirrell sues.
Marty Tirrell, the very loud sports-radio guy, is suing the owners of Toyota of Des Moines, the car dealership that housed his radio show on 1700 AM. He says his [...]
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Posted February 20, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Swati for Congress? Pat Murphy, too!
Democrats say former legislator Swati Dandekar is looking at running for Congress in the First District. She didn’t respond to Cityview’s query, but if she is running she’ll be a [...]
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Posted February 13, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Register reporter calls Obama ‘cult leader.’ More Harkin fallout. Dick Olson cheats death.
More on the fallout from Tom Harkin’s decision not to run again in 2014. It’s becoming more and more clear there will be primaries in both parties as state politicians [...]
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Posted February 06, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
The Conlins and windows. Branstad and Dwolla.
When the rich and the powerful get pissed off (continued): When last we left the great vinyl-window-vs.-wood-window dispute, James and Roxanne Conlin had hired Doug Gross — yeah, that’s pretty [...]
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