Stray Thoughts
Randy EvansThoughts on government transparency, politics and civic affairs written weekly -- and sometimes, weakly -- by a longtime advocate for government transparency.
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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...
Iowa Supreme Court still preaches open gov’t, but the choir is splintering
Since 2003, the Iowa Supreme Court sits in the judicial branch building southeast of the Capitol in Des Moines. Photo courtesy of the Iowa Judicial Branch.
The Iowa Supreme Court typically opens its rulings on the state’s public-records an...
The law says explain, but Polk County didn't
In 2017 the Iowa Legislature made it clear that the public deserved to know facts about the termination of government workers.
NOVELIST CHARLES DICKENS poked his quill pen at government bureaucracy 175 years ago with his accounts about a...
Turning the page still leaves judge with a hole to climb from
An Iowa judge is trying to dig herself out of a big hole created by her lapse of good judgment one night last November. Photo illustration by ChatGPT.
When District Judge Adria Kester studied at the Drake University Law School, she must ha...
Accepting criticism is essential part of government jobs
Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents visit the home of David Streever after he wrote to the head of ICE about the deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis. Photo from Streever’s doorbell camera video.
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