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Posted October 21, 2016in Civic Skinny

Your ISU alumni dollars at work: $1.1 million was paid to foundation bosses Leath ordered fired without cause.

The Iowa State University Foundation has spent more than $1.1 million to buy out the contracts of two foundation presidents fired by university President Steve Leath. The two men were [...]

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Posted October 02, 2016in Civic Skinny

U of I cuts graduation threshold in Ferentz contract. And for $4.5 million (plus), he agrees not to complain.

That huge new contract the University of Iowa has given football coach Kirk Ferentz has a new wrinkle or two. Besides paying him a minimum of $4.5 million in its [...]

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Posted May 04, 2016in Civic Skinny

Polk GOP likes God and guns — but not public radio or TV.  Andringa quits. Hensley collects. LaMarca bills top $900,000.

  Not much has been happening of late in Chris Godfrey’s lawsuit against Gov. Terry Branstad and five other state officials named in the retaliation, defamation, extortion and discrimination proceeding. [...]

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