School kids skip out on debt. Grassley tweets.
The Des Moines school system has a lot of deadbeat kids. Or maybe nice kids with deadbeat parents. Or maybe deadbeat kids with deadbeat parents. They’re skipping out on the [...]
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Posted November 21, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Posted November 14, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
What it all means in 1,636 (or so) words
Mike Gronstal is more powerful than ever. Gay marriage is a dead issue. Bob Vander Plaats is irrelevant. Bruce Rastetter has wasted a lot of money. Tom Harkin now has [...]
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Posted November 07, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Tales from the courtroom, the newsroom and a hurricane
Gerry Spence put on a show last week in Judge Robert Pratt’s federal courtroom. The flamboyant lawyer is representing Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee, who spent 26 years in prison [...]
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Posted October 31, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Law dean: ‘I’m not purely a rubber stamp.’
A friend — a droll and witty man who once was well-known in central Iowa — has Alzheimer’s Disease, and he knows it. The other day, a couple of his [...]
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Posted October 24, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Political money train goes in and out of Iowa
The race between Congressional incumbents Leonard Boswell and Tom Latham must be close. Or, at least, the disbursing agents in Washington must think it’s close. Between Oct. 2 and Oct. [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
Des Moines streetcars still run on memory lane
I remember as a little boy riding the streetcars that ran down the middle of Ingersoll. I remember riding the Crocker streetcar with my grandmother to the very end of [...]
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Posted October 10, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
A potty-mouthed coach, a big-hearted Knapp
Ousted Lincoln High football coach Tom Mihalovich says that “in 35 years of coaching, I have never cussed out a player. I have never used profanity toward an individual player.” [...]
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Posted October 03, 2012in Civic Skinny, Featured Story
If your mother says she loves you, check it out
Quote of the week, or maybe the year, as reported by Jeff Eckhoff in The Des Moines Register: “My dad’s so tight you couldn’t pull a needle out of his [...]
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