Long-time Linn County Auditor Linda Langenberg, now a deputy secretary of state in Des Moines, grew up in the home and old general store where Robert Sallis ran the prostitution ring that’s been the subject of a two-week Gazette series authored by Jennifer Hemmingsen.
Langenberg said Cosgrove, an unincorporated village southwest of Iowa City, was a wonderful place to [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Langenberg grew up in now-infamous Cosgrove home
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You’ve got the wrong Linn County, lady
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes it pays to check the address at the bottom of a website.
Linn County Supervisor Linda Langston last week got an unusual complaint filed by e-mail through the county’s website.
A woman said her 8-month old lhasa-apso-maltese-mix puppy had been “murdered” by a roving pit bull.
“She was concerned about the off leash laws,” Langston said. “She wanted there [...]
Promise comes with price
Posted in Other, tagged health insurance, school district on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I couldn’t get this posted to the website this weekend. Here are the opening grafs of my Sunday story on government health insurance benefits and GASB 45:
CEDAR RAPIDS – Iowa’s school districts, cities and counties are not setting aside what may be billions of dollars needed to pay for retirees’ health care in the future, [...]
Hanson, Miller at it again
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This time it’s over something Miller posted on his campaign blog: Hanson’s driver’s license number.
Miller says it was an honest mistake. Hanson says it was a grave offense.
The number was on Miller’s blog for about 18 hours, listed on a document that Miller says he posted to show that Hanson voted as a Republican in the past [...]
Union Station tragedy
Posted in Other, tagged Cedar Rapids, Union Station on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I thought maybe I’d wait until June to mention this, but Dave Rasdal’s story in today’s paper about the guy building a Union Station replica makes it a good time to bring it up. The above picture is of the station, viewed from the southwest on Fourth Avenue SE.
The month of June will mark the 47th [...]
Miell lied on the stand, prosecutors say
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »
New charges in a “superseding indictment” against Robert Miell accuse him of lying under oath during the civil trial January that ended with him having to pay $1.5 million to American Family Insurance.
The man is in trouble. In addition to 18 counts of criminal mail fraud, Miell now faces a count of perjury and two counts of [...]
Miller’s blog pulled from Gazetteonline
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Joel Miller, Lyle Hanson, P.T. Larson on April 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Joel Miller’s blog “Views from the Linn County Auditor” was taken off the Gazette’s home page this week. Miller’s opponent Lyle Hanson pointed out that having the blog — which Miller did not use as a campaigning tool — on the Gazette’s website was a little unfair. Gazette online editor Jason Kristufek agreed and said [...]
Test yourself for racism
Posted in Other, tagged Cedar Rapids, race, University of Chicago on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The University of Chicago has an online test where pictures of black and white men flash on the screen, either holding guns, cellphones, wallets or cans of Budweiser. You have to shoot the guys holding guns and holster your gun for everyone else, and you have to do it quickly.
At the end it tells you your [...]
Eastern Iowa’s war crimes prosecutor back to visit Tuesday
Posted in Courts, tagged Charles Taylor, civil war, Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leone, Stephen Rapp, University of Iowa on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stephen Rapp, chief prosecutor of the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone, is going to speak at 12:40 p.m. tomorrow in Room 115 of the Boyd Building at the UI College of Law.
It’s free and open to the public. If you live in Iowa City and can make it, it would be worth your [...]
