Posted October 02, 2019in Civic Skinny
An Iowa businessman is poking around to see if he can drum up support from some colleagues to make an offer to buy The Des Moines Register. “Iowans have [...]
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Posted September 04, 2019in Civic Skinny
The Governor’s office sat on more than $600,000 of legal bills from the Nyemaster law firm in the costly Chris Godfrey trial until the trial was over. The bills — [...]
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Posted July 31, 2019in Civic Skinny
AUGUST 7 UPDATE: Christopher Godfrey’s attorneys have submitted bills of $4,130,673.38 for fees and expenses in the retaliation and discrimination lawsuit he won against former Gov. Terry Branstad and Brenna [...]
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Posted July 03, 2019in Civic Skinny
Editor’s Note: Michael Gartner was out this month, so the rest of us scrubs pulled together the following. The Des Moines Social Club is “in financial hot water” and “looking [...]
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Posted June 05, 2019in Civic Skinny
Titan Tire is a deadbeat. The company or its affiliates own those 38 acres at 16th Street and MLK Jr. Parkway on the edge of downtown, land where the soil [...]
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Posted May 01, 2019in Civic Skinny
The city of Des Moines has paid Mark Evans $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit he filed after hitting a 6-inch-high, unmarked curb the city built across what most bikers [...]
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Posted April 03, 2019in Civic Skinny
Three things, perhaps in order of importance: Thing No. 1. Rejoice. Harry is here. Harry arrived without fanfare several months ago from London. He came on British Airways, hoping to [...]
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Posted March 06, 2019in Civic Skinny
A federal grand jury has charged Marty Tirrell with mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud, two counts of bank fraud and fraudulent use of another person’s credit card. The [...]
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Posted February 06, 2019in Civic Skinny
A federal grand jury has charged Marty Tirrell with mail fraud, wire fraud, two counts of bank fraud and fraudulent use of another person’s credit card. The charges follow years [...]
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Posted January 02, 2019in Civic Skinny
Iowa State University paid Drake University $300,000 to play that football game in Ames on Dec. 1. The figure apparently has not been reported. Drake also got 300 free tickets [...]
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