Posted January 30, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
There have been four spectacular Democrats in Iowa in the past 50 years: Harold Hughes, Neal Smith, Tom Vilsack and Tom Harkin. Harold Hughes fathered the community-college system and liquor [...]
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Posted January 23, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
No one is issuing any press releases, but the plan to move the downtown YMCA to the old convention center is all but a done deal. The money is pledged. [...]
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Posted January 16, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz, who is turning over every rock and checking every driver’s license and database in his search for persons who are voting illegally, is on [...]
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Posted January 09, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Circulation of the Sunday and daily Des Moines Register has fallen more than 7 percent in the past year, the newspapers’ audit reports show. The drops accelerated after June 1, [...]
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Posted January 02, 2013in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Hell hath no fury like a lawyer scorned. The Iowa Supreme Court last week ruled — unanimously — that a Fort Dodge dentist did not unlawfully discriminate against his dental [...]
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Posted December 26, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Politics makes strange bedfellows.Or bedfellows make strange politics. Roxanne Conlin, high-profile lawyer and onetime Democratic candidate for governor and, later, for senator, and her husband, developer James Conlin, have sued [...]
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Posted December 19, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Twelve drummers drumming… …but not as loud as the Isiserettes for new Drake basketball coach Jenny Lillis Baranczyk…for each and every Nada…and banker Kim Gillespie, now Kim Willis…for the two [...]
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Posted December 12, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
You don’t stop and think much about Iowa Public Television. It’s just there. There with the news, with the debates, with “Iowa Press” and “Market to Market.” There at the [...]
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Posted December 05, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Sue Dvorsky is stepping down as chair of the state Democratic Party, Cityview has learned, and executive director Norm Sterzenbach is leaving as well. Party leaders will meet next weekend [...]
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Posted November 28, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Don’t feel too bad for Kirk Ferentz. Sure, the stony-faced, gum-chewing University of Iowa football coach won only four games this fall, giving the Hawkeyes their worst season since 2000. [...]
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