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Guess who loses when the gov’t official snoozes?
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When dealing with the Iowa Public Information Board, being a mind-reader helps.
That is one takeaway from the board’s dismissal last week of a public-records complaint against Attorney General Brenna Bird’s o...
When gov’t retirements play hide-and-seek with tax money
Some highly paid government employees in Iowa leave with lucrative “retirement” benefits that go well beyond typical government pensions. Photo illustration from Substack.
SUCCESSION PLANNING and public celebration typically accompany exec...
Let the public see what government boards see
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IN RECENT WEEKS, people from Cherokee, Des Moines and Ottumwa have contacted the Iowa Freedom of Information Council with concerns about the refusal of local officials to share documents distributed to city...
D.M. school officials met the law — but missed the point
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YOU WOULD THINK a school district readily knows its A-B-C’s.
Not the Des Moines Public Schools — at least not when informing the public what its 6,600 employees were paid during the academic year that e...
Don Pardo, what has Hendrik Van Pelt won?
Traffic surveillance cameras owned and operated by Flock Group Inc. are at the center of an Iowa man’s quest for a map of their locations in West Des Moines. Photo courtesy of Flock Group.
GAMES SHOWS HAVE one virtue Iowa’s open-records en...
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