There’s a new property management company in town, but then again no, there’s not.
The company is called Elite Properties of Iowa, LLC, and it was incorporated on July 17, by guess who: Bob Miell.
The big-time local landlord in trouble with the feds over mail fraud has opened a new business, but the business lists the [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Bob Miell’s new gig
Posted in Other, tagged Bob Miell, Cedar Rapids on September 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
K.Potts “snubbed” at McCain/Palin rally
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
We at County Supervision are a little slow on the draw with this one, but Republican Kathy Potts, a candidate for Senate District 33 said she was snubbed at the McCain-Palin rally a little over a week ago.
She wanted to stand on the podium with the Republican presidential ticket, the Iowa Independent reports, but Iowa [...]
Houser responds to Erceg cherry bomb
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Houser called John Erceg’s analysis “whacko,” though he acknowledged that Langston does a lot of the talking at supervisor meetings.
“Just because your mouth isn’t flapping all the time doesn’t mean your brain isn’t thinking,” Houser said. “If Linda wants to talk, you’ve got to sit and be respectful of that. You don’t want to be [...]
Iowa Public Radio looking for C.R. correspondent
Posted in Courts, tagged Cedar Rapids, Iowa Public Radio, reporter on September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Iowa Public Radio News Director Jonathan Ahl makes some corrections to this blog entry in a comment below.
Anyone who listens to Iowa Public Radio with any regularity knows that the local news report in Eastern Iowa consists almost entirely of two things: Someone reads newspaper headlines aloud and Jeneane Beck, apparently IPR’s only reporter (yes, [...]
Festival of consultants
Posted in County Government, Flood, tagged contracts, John Levy, Linn County on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While the $475 per hour the city is paying for the services of Mr. John Levy of Globe Midwest Risk Managment is unusually high, he’s not the only consultant making more money in an hour than some people around here see in a week.
Adjusters International, the company with which Levy is affiliated, offers the following [...]
Please boo next time
Posted in Cedar Rapids City Council, tagged Cedar Rapids, city council, Robert Bates on September 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The most effective way to shut someone down in the public comment period of city council meetings is not for the city council to ban the person. It’s for the other members of the public to express their displeasure with the person at the mike.
I wasn’t at the city council meeting where Robert Bates rammed [...]
Politics, FEMA and the city: People! It’s complicated!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Judging by the uniform tone of comments on the story I wrote for today’s front page, readers do not understand what actually is happening.
The subtext of the entire story is that FEMA’s announcement of $77 million for Cedar Rapids is no more than a symbolic gesture, with no immediate effect. So when FEMA says the [...]
