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Regardless of whether the public attention span has room for further examination of Eric Rosenthal’s accounting credentials (I highly doubt it), I will forge ahead and try to clarify something Mr. Rosenthal has pointed out as inaccurate in one of my stories.
I said in an Oct. 14 story that Rosenthal’s accounting certificate in Illinois was [...]

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After the Walker Pickle Days Parade in late July, a small-town parade in which both Jim Houser and Dave Machacek walked, the two men had a brief conversation. They remember it in different ways.
At the end of the line, after having passed all the greedy children and their sagging bags of candy, Machacek stuck his [...]

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Here’s the news story about Eric Rosenthal and the ethics complaint against him. He sent me this e-mail Monday afternoon:
My attorney recently filed another response to the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board regarding an investigation which I was notified of on November 16, 2007. The investigation is in response to a complaint that I [...]

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Houser vs. Machacek

It’s the big one.
We had both of them up in the newsroom this week for editorial board meetings. The muckety-mucks (yes, that includes Todd Dorman) will decide who they want to endorse in the election.
I do not help make endorsements, but I sit in on the meetings to see what I can glean.
So, Houser and [...]

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