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Stray Thoughts

Randy Evans

Thoughts on government transparency, politics and civic affairs written weekly -- and sometimes, weakly -- by a longtime advocate for government transparency.

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Good intentions be damned

The University of Iowa chemistry building was “home” to Ezra Totton in the 1940s when some states turned away the talented young student from North Carolina. Photo courtesy of the University of Iowa.

Here we go again.

If the University of...

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It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up

Photo by Bermix Studio, courtesy of Unsplash

HERE’S BETTING District Judge Adria Kester does not read the Aspen Daily News. That Colorado newspaper’s front-page slogan declares, “If you don’t want it printed, don’t let it happen.”

What...

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Digesting our Founders’ words

Photo by Luke Michael / Unsplash.

MY LUNCHTIME CONVERSATION with an old friend recently never got to the Major League Baseball races, the WNBA or Caitlin Clark. We skipped over the weather and never got around to how corn and soybean plant...

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There’s a buzz over this unusual constitutional standoff

Siblings Jaclyn Oltmans and Mike DiGiacomo are shown with the now-infamous barber chair that has landed the Omaha bar owners in court against Nebraska government regulators. Photo from the Institute for Justice.

BECAUSE OF HIS INTIMIDATING...

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What happens when officials fail to use their eyes and ears?

A group of Des Moines-area joggers has run afoul of city parks officials, and potentially, the police, too. Photo illustration courtesy of Unsplash.

AT THE RISK OF BLURRING the increasingly fuzzy line between church and state, here is a Go...

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