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• 'Journalistic Ethics' No Oxymoron

  December 7, 2009, 10:00 a.m.
  
  Media Watch: "Woman allegedly drove into backyard"
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Is the concept of "journalistic ethics" an oxymoron?
  
  Yesterday's Press-Citizen resolved the issue once and for all. Not only does the journalistic profession have ethics, they are sometimes applied to excess.
  [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:41am EST
  

• There is No War in Afghanistan

  December 4, 2009, 9:00 a.m.
  
  Why Are We There?
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  It turns out that President Obama's war plan for Afghanistan is even worse than I thought.
  
  Yesterday I hunkered down by myself and tried to think it through. I ended up concluding that, although' [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 7:07am EST
  

• Obama's Afghanistan

  December 3, 2009, 6:00 a.m.
  
  He Can't Win, Can't Break Even, and Can't Get Out of the Game
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)Afghanistan is extremely poor, landlocked, and highly dependent on foreign aid, agriculture, and trade with neighboring countries. Much of the population continues to suffer from shortages of' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:15am EST
  

• Obama's Afghanistan

  December 3, 2009, 6:00 a.m.
  
  You Can't Win, Can't Break Even, and Can't Get Out of the Game
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)Afghanistan is extremely poor, landlocked, and highly dependent on foreign aid, agriculture, and trade with neighboring countries. Much of the population continues to suffer from shortages of' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:57am EST
  

• No Such Thing as 10.2% Unemployment

  November 27, 2009, 11:00 a.m.
  
  I Can CCC Our Way Out of Recession
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Today we transition from the poverty, and generosity, of Thanksgiving Day, e.g., Lee Hermiston, "Sharing food, lives; Church serves meal as a gift to community," Iowa [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:29am EST
  

• UI's Basketball Fees Self-Defeating

  November 23, 2009, 6:15 a.m.
  
  Rational Rationing of Recreation
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  How much should pick-up basketball players have to pay to walk onto the floor of the UI Field House south gym?
  
  Paul Donaldson not only thinks it should cost nothing, he documents why it's' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:02am EST
  

• UI Has a Drinking Problem

  November 18, 2009, 7:40 a.m.; November 19, 2009, 10:15 a.m.; November 20, 2009, 6:30 a.m.
  
  Updates: UI VP Medical Jean Robillard says patient-donation-dunning plan "canceled a week ago"; spokesperson "clarifies," says "canceled" means "under review," B.A. Morelli, "Leaders Address Employee Concerns; UI Officials: No Decision on Job Issues," [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:14am EST
  

• Corporatizing the University of Iowa

  November 17, 2009, 8:45 a.m.
  
  If We're Going to Do It, Let's Do It Right
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  Ten days ago I was introduced to the writing of a business executive, Scott Westerman, and thought enough of his description of a profitable substitution of cooperation for competition [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:29am EST
  

• Hasan and the Obligation to Intervene

  November 16, 2009, 6:00 a.m.
  
  Major Hasan: A Case Study in Responsibility
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  As everyone in the world with access to the media has been informed, "[Army] Major [Nidal Malik] Hasan, 39, an Army psychiatrist . . ., is accused of opening fire with a" [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:48am EST
  

• Strategic Communications a Failed Strategy

  November 13, 2009, 6:25 a.m.
  
  Actions Speak Louder
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  There is a kind of cruel irony that a university ends up harming the very public image it seeks to improve by the way it goes about hiring yet another vice president -- the one who [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:24am EST
  

• Drawing School Boundaries: Clarity vs. Chaos

  November 11, 2009, 7:40 a.m.
  
  Bumps on the Road to Boundaries
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  This morning's blog entry is a commentary about the School Board's most recent efforts at rethinking its elementary school attendance boundaries, at its meeting last evening, November 10.
  But first, here are [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:39am EST
  

• Mickey Mouse Patient Satisfaction

  November 8, 2009, 6:30 a.m.
  
  UIHC's Troubles: Is Orlando the Answer?
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  That the UIHC administrators want a trip to Orlando, Florida's Disney World raises a number of issues: (1) the public relations, and legislative, backlash, (2) whether the UIHC needs improved "patient satisfaction," [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 6:15am EST
  

• November 7, 2009, 6:00 a.m.Peace ...

  November 7, 2009, 6:00 a.m.
  
  Peace as Process
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  
  
  
  Last Saturday the Press-Citizen cleverly ridiculed into reality the School Board's "governance by clicker." Editorial, "Board Needs Civil Dialogue Not Clickers," Iowa City Press-Citizen, October 31, 2009. This Saturday they've done' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:29pm EST
  

• Cooperation vs. Competition, Conflict, Combat and Catastrophe

  November 6, 2009, 6:00 a.m.
  
  Peace as Process
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  There will be time enough in future blog entries to reflect upon the impoverished UIHC "leaders and staff," with their need to shake down patients for "voluntary" contributions to help make up for a $17 [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:19am EST
  

• Boundaries: Only Board Can Do Board's Job

  November 2, 2009, 5:45 a.m.
  
  For Wednesday, November 4, blog entry, see "UIHC: 'Sick Brother, Can You Spare a Dime."
  
  Drawing School Boundaries Made Easy
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  This morning's blog entry is a reproduction of an op ed column of mine on school [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:42am EST
  

• UIHC: 'Sick Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?'

  October 31, 2009; November 20, 2009
  
  Updates:
  
  November 20: UI VP Medical Jean Robillard says patient-donation-dunning plan "canceled a week ago"; spokesperson "clarifies," says "canceled" means "under review," B.A. Morelli, "Leaders Address Employee Concerns; UI Officials: No Decision on Job Issues," Iowa City Press-Citizen, November 20, 2009, [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 5:52am EDT
  

• Cutting Slack, Cutting Budgets

  October 30, 2009, 8:30 a.m.
  
  Regents, University Presidents, Deserve Some Thanks and Credit
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  The sound of one shoe dropping.
  
  The Iowa universities' presidents have presented their budget-cutting plans to the Regents, and the Regents have taken some votes.
  
  Those who comment on' [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:07am EDT
  

• Board of Regents and School Board's Boundaries

  October 29, 2009, 9:15 a.m.
  
  It's Been a Weird Week in Lake Woebegon
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  The big news today for many readers of this blog will be whatever comes out of the Board of Regents' meeting in Cedar Falls today regarding budget cuts at the [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 7:24am EDT
  

• UI Spence Break-In: Gazette Scoop Illustrates Issues

  October 27, 2009, 11:00 a.m.; November 20, 2009, 6:30 a.m.
  
  Nov. 20 Updates: Two Spence break-in grand jury witnesses jailed for refusal to testify, one now indicted, "UI Spence Break-In: Gazette Scoop Illustrates Issues," October 27, 2009; Anonymous, "Davenport Grand Jury Subpoena for Scott DeMuth," Nov. 11, [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:57am EDT
  

• This Blog's Good For Your Brain

  October 26, 2009, 6:00 a.m.
  For UI and Iowa's budget, see links from "TARP Lessons for Iowa's Budget Cutters," October 23, 2009.
  
  Searching the Internet to Find It Even More So
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Remember "this is your brain on drugs"?
  
  
  
  Well, this [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 5:48am EDT
  

• TARP Lessons for Iowa's Budget Cutters

  October 23, 2009, 7:40 a.m.
  
  Today's blog entry is another in a series devoted to Iowa's budget crisis and its impact on the University of Iowa. Prior entries included:
  
  "How Many Administrators Does It Take? Administrators are Multiplying & Sucking Us Dry," July 16, 2009
  
  [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 4:50am EDT
  

• Housing for the Wealthy Unemployment for the Poor

  October 21, 2009, 6:15 a.m.
  
  "It's the Unemployment, Stupid!
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Washington's corruption of our economic recovery efforts is painful, embarrassing and so obviously benefiting the rich while ignoring the poor and middle class that it's coming to be as depressing emotionally as it is economically.[...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 5:37am EDT
  

• UI Budget: Waivers Wave Goodbye to Savings

  October 19, 2009, 7:25 a.m.
  
  By any standard one of the biggest issues ever confronting the State of Iowa and its state universities is the handling of the past, present and future budget cuts occasioned by the current Wall Street created economic crisis. Here are some earlier blog entries [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 5:30am EDT
  

• How to Cut Iowa's Budget

  October 15, 2009, 7:20 a.m.
  
  Related entries regarding University of Iowa Budget Issues: See "A University's Strategic Communication; A Modest Proposal to the Regents' University Presidents," October 7, 2009; and "Iowa's Budget Cuts and the University; Economic Collapse Tests Moral Values," October 9, 2009.
  
  Other current,' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 6:25am EDT
  

• A Neighborly Request

  October 14, 2009, 6:45 a.m.
  How About Them Hawks!
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Current Hot Topics:
  
  Hancher-Voxman-Clapp Relocation. Five-part series on relocation and rebuilding. Part V, with its links to the prior four, and its "update" analysis of the October 12 forum's "third option" and proposal' [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 6:54am EDT
  

• Dissing the Office of President

  October 12, 2009, 6:10 a.m.
  Looking for commentary about the Oct. 12 Hancher relocation forum? Click here.
  Looking for the entries about the University, and Iowa's, budget cuts? Click here and here.
  
  Ad Hominem Attack as Political Strategy
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  Rodney Dangerfield' [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 6:08am EDT
  

• Iowa's Budget Cuts and the University

  October 9, 2009, 7:15 a.m.
  Here is "A University's Strategic Communication," October 7, if that's what you're looking for.
  Economic Collapse Tests Moral Values
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Iowa's Governor Chet Culver, left with very little option given the Iowa Constitution's requirement of balanced budgets, a decline' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 4:36am EDT
  

• A University's Strategic Communication

  October 7, 2009, 8:45 a.m.
  
  See also "Iowa's Budget Cuts and the University; Economic Collapse Tests Moral Values," Oct. 9
  
  A Modest Proposal to the Regents' University Presidents
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  The University of Iowa wants "strategic communication" and is searching for someone to provide [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 6:36am EDT
  

• Chicago Wins Olympics Bid

  October 5, 2009, 6:30 a.m.
  Why Chicago Won the Olympics Bid
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Did you read today's blog headline as a typographical error, an Olympics equivalent of the Chicago Tribune's headline following the 1948 election, "Dewey Defeats Truman" -- a triumph [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 6:37am EDT
  

• Capitalism on Trial

  October 2, 2009, 9:20 a.m.
  
  Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, Supreme Court Day, and
  "Master Harold . . . and the boys"
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  At the University of Iowa College of Law it's Supreme Court Day. At 1000 movie theaters across America it's "Capitalism: A Love Story." [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 6:46am EDT
  

• Iowa Subsidizes the Movie Industry -- A Good Idea?

  September 30, 2009, 8:20 a.m.
  
  Movies Are Getting More Expensive
  And It's Not Just the Ticket and Popcorn Prices
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Now I don't mean to minimize the outrageous prices we're charged for popcorn at the movies. And if you're curious as to how much profit [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 6:23am EDT
  

• Fat People, Fat Profits

  September 28, 2009, 5:30 a.m.
  
  Need to Shed a Few Pounds?
  Target the Right Enemy
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  This morning's blog entry about nutrition and weight loss (and gain) is a blend of public policy and personal anecdote.
  
  I've never seen the fascination in the details [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 5:17am EDT
  

• Why Afghanistan? Think Oil & Gas

  September 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m.
  
  Trying to Make Sense of Why We're in Afghanistan
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Are we at war, once again, because of our need to control sources of oil, gas, pipeline and oil tanker routes and ports?
  
  I don't know. How could I? [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 5:01am EDT
  

• Healthcare: It's Broken, We're Broke -- and # 37

  September 23, 2009, 7:55 a.m.
  
  Healthcare Executive: "System's Broken"
  "We're Number 37!" Set to Song
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  It's so sad. So disgusting. Not just our profiteering sickness industry, but the "business . . . as usual" performance of those in Washington whom we elect to bring' [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 7:40am EDT
  

• Externalities: Hawkeyes' Football, Obama's Safety

  September 21, 2009, 5:50 a.m.
  
  Externalities: Football; Murdoch and Obama's Safety
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)externality -- an external effect, often unforeseen or unintended, accompanying a process or activity: to eliminate externalities such as air pollution through government regulation. Dictionary.comFootball's Externalities
  
  If you live near the Kinnick [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 5:44am EDT
  

• September 21, 2009, 7:00 a.m.Externalities: ...

  September 21, 2009, 7:00 a.m.
  
  Externalities: Football; Murdoch and Obama's Safety
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)externality -- an external effect, often unforeseen or unintended, accompanying a process or activity: to eliminate externalities such as air pollution through government regulation. Dictionary.comFootball's Externalities
  
  If you live near the Kinnick [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2009, 7:30am EDT
  

• Hancher - Part V

  September 18, 2009, 8:10 a.m. -- now with update on October 12 Forum
  
  Some Suggestions for Thinking About the Location of
  the University of Iowa's New Performance Venue
  Part V
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  [Blog Entries in Hancher Series (and see, "Hancher Relocation Process and Site," July' [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 5:47am EDT
  

• Hancher - Part IV

  September 17, 2009, 6:35 a.m.
  
  Some Suggestions for Thinking About the Location of
  the University of Iowa's New Performance Venue
  Part IV
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)[Blog Entries in Hancher Series:
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "Hancher - Part I," September 14, 2009 (Downtown).
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "Hancher -'" [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 4:07am EDT
  

• Hancher - Part III

  September 16, 2009, 6:35 a.m.
  
  Some Suggestions for Thinking About the Location of
  the University of Iowa's New Performance Venue
  Part III
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)[Entries in Hancher Series:
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "Hancher - Part I," September 14, 2009 (Downtown).
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "Hancher - Part'" [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 6:31am EDT
  

• Hancher - Part II

  September 15, 2009, 7:15 a.m.
  
  Some Suggestions for Thinking About the Location of
  the University of Iowa's New Performance Venue
  Part II
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)[Entries in Hancher Series:
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "Hancher - Part I," September 14, 2009 (Downtown).
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "Hancher - Part'" [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 7:02am EDT
  

• Hancher - Part I

  September 14, 2009, 6:25 a.m.
  
  Some Suggestions for Thinking About the Location of
  the University of Iowa's New Performance Venue
  Part I
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)[Entries in Hancher Series:
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "Hancher - Part I," September 14, 2009 (Downtown).
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "Hancher - Part'" [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 6:21am EDT
  

• Hancher

  September 14, 2009, 6:00 a.m.
  
  Some Suggestions for Thinking About the Location of
  the University of Iowa's New Performance Venue
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Iowa City's residents, downtown merchants, University of Iowa officials -- and ultimately the Board of Regents -- have a decision to think through. The [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 6:56am EDT
  

• Republicans' Practical Joke; President's Unwinnable War

  September 11, 2009, 7:00 a.m.
  
  9/11 -- Eight Years and Out
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  "You lie!" A member of my family with a twisted sense of humor has come up with an explanation for S.C. Republican Congressman Joe Wilson's otherwise inexplicable outburst ("You lie!") during the President's [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 4:29am EDT
  

• School Board Election: Now Work Begins

  September 9, 2009, 7:00 a.m.
  
  It's Swisher, Dorau, Cooper;
  Old Board "Starting Off Backing Up" With Consultant and Tough Decisions;
  Meanwhile, Part of $6 Million that Mysteriously Disappeared Miraculously Reappears
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Sarah Swisher led the race from the beginning as the returns came in' [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 5:04am EDT
  

• Labor and Schools Deserve Respect, Support

  September 7, 2009, 7:00 a.m.
  
  Labor Day Monday, School Board Election Tuesday
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Labor Day. Although labor day began in Canada a good decade before it made its way south to the U.S. in 1882, it wasn't formally recognized until 1884. President Grover Cleveland had' [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 6:52am EDT
  

• School Board Governance: First Things First

  September 4, 2009, 9:00 a.m.
  For other, related, blog entries, see:
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "School Board Governance: First Things First; School Board Forum Producers Charis-Carlson and Yates Create Hit, But Where Was Candidates' Awareness of "Job One": Their Governance Model?" September 4, 2009;
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "IC School'" [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 7:36am EDT
  

• IC School Board Needs Fresh Thinking

  September 2, 2009, 9:00 a.m.
  For earlier, often related, blog entries, see:
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "School Board Governance: First Things First; School Board Forum Producers Charis-Carlson and Yates Create Hit, But Where Was Candidates' Awareness of "Job One": Their Governance Model?" September 4, 2009;
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "IC'" [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 8:31am EDT
  

• General McChrystal: Afghan Efforts 'Not Working'

  August 31, 2009, 4:00 a.m.
  
  For a better written, but otherwise almost identical analysis to my own, though I suffer no illusion that George Will reads this blog, see the next day's George Will, "Time to Get Out of Afghanistan," Washington Post, September 1, 2009.
  
  BBC Has' [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 4:02am EDT
  

• School Boundaries Consultant Folly

  August 28, 2009, 7:20 a.m.
  
  For other, related blog entries, see:
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "School Board Governance: First Things First; School Board Forum Producers Charis-Carlson and Yates Create Hit, But Where Was Candidates' Awareness of "Job One": Their Governance Model?" September 4, 2009;
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "IC'" [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 7:21am EDT
  

• Teddy

  August 26, 2009, 4:30 a.m.
  
  Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy
  February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  I have just heard the Kennedy family's announcement that Senator Kennedy died late last night, August 25, 2009.
  
  If you are too young to know the [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 5:19am EDT
  

• Choosing a College and Rankings

  August 25, 2009, 8:15 a.m.
  
  Random Thoughts on College Rankings
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  The University of Iowa News Service recently trumpeted "UI 29th Best U.S. Public National University." The news release began:
  The University of Iowa is the 29th best public national university in the country, [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 9:47am EDT
  

• Banks As Robbers: The $38 Billion Heist

  August 21, 2009, 6:40 a.m.
  
  How Banks Profit From Robbing Customers
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  After years of watching bank robbers take their money, banks are turning the tables and now making billions by robbing their customers.
  
  And, so far, the local papers are not following up [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 6:39am EDT
  

• School Board Members' Advice

  August 19, 2009, 1:50 p.m.
  For other, related, blog entries, see:
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "School Board Governance: First Things First; School Board Forum Producers Charis-Carlson and Yates Create Hit, But Where Was Candidates' Awareness of "Job One": Their Governance Model?" September 4, 2009;
  
  Nicholas Johnson, "IC School'" [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 12:52pm EDT
  

• Socialism, Public Option, Obama and Health Care

  August 17, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
  
  General Semantics Meets "Socialized Medicine"
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  The news that we're not only not going to get the system of "universal, single payer" health care that every other industrialized country offers its citizens, we're not even going to get the [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2009, 11:17am EDT
  

• UI VPs and ICCSD Consultants

  July 14, 2009, 8:30 a.m.
  
  Concerns About Consultants and Vice Presidents
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  UI vice presidents and ICCSD school district consultants are back in the news.
  
  Wikipedia tells us that "A consultant, from the Latin 'consultare,' means 'to discuss' from which we also" [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 6:18am EDT
  

• Big Pharma Makes Me Sick

  July 12, 2009, 8:30a.m.
  
  Big Pharma is a Carcinogen
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  The pharmaceutical industry is deliberately causing and spreading cancer -- and very successfully so.
  
  It is the cancer of corruption spreading from our body politic throughout the major institutions of our medical profession, [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 7:24am EDT
  

• Obama's Punking and Punting on First Down

  July 10, 2009, 5:00 p.m.
  
  Change We Can No Longer Believe In
  From the blogosphere to the pages of the New York Times, others' disappointments and disillusionment with President Obama are coming more and more to resemble what I have been saying in blog entries here since the election' [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2009, 4:46pm EDT
  

• Nickel and Diming Don't Make Sense

  July 7, 2009, 8:50 a.m.
  
  How is MidAmerican Like a Country Club?
  They Both Have Membership Fees
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  This is not a blog entry about "the high cost" of this or that. I don't disagree that monopoly and oligopoly price-setting, campaign-contribution-purchased government intervention with' [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 7:33am EDT
  

• Sickness Empire Strikes Back

  August 6, 2009, 10:25 a.m.
  
  Too Hurt to Laugh, Too Old to Cry
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Adlai Stevenson remains to this day one of my political heroes from his 1952 presidential race 57 years ago. Although I'm normally relaxed about meeting people for the first time,' [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 9:17am EDT
  

• Cash for Contributors' Clunkers

  August 4, 2009, 1:00 p.m.
  
  "You're the reason I'm ridin' 'round on recapped tires"
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  You're the reason I'm ridin' 'round on recapped tires
  An' you're the reason I'm hangin' our clothes outside on wires
  . . .
  Ah, but money ain't everything
  I' [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2009, 10:54am EDT
  

• Cronkite in Context: Walter, CBS or the Era?

  July 31, 2009, 12:30 p.m. (August 19, 2009 Don Hewitt addition)
  
  Insights from Cronkite's Success
  Shed Light on Today's Media Failures
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  This is my last broadcast as the anchorman of The CBS Evening News; for me, it's a moment for which I long' [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 6:14am EDT
  

• It's the Unemployment, Stupid!

  July 29, 2009, 6:00 a.m.
  
  Perry County: If the Question is Economic Recovery
  The Answer is Jobs
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  James Carville, the political consultant who once famously tried to keep presidential candidate Bill Clinton "on message" with the wall sign, "It's the economy, stupid!" [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 5:36am EDT
  

• More for Insurance Ain't Rx for Health

  July 27, 2009, 9:45 a.m.; July 28, 2009, 8:00 a.m.
  
  Forget the "Details," the Devil is in the Basic Concept
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Update July 28: This morning brings more evidence that "insurance" is continuing to win out over "health care," thanks to the six senators who [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2009, 8:58am EDT
  

• Alcohol's Impact on Iowa City

  July 24, 2009, 10:00 a.m., 10:00 p.m.
  
  Police Toss Bar Closing Recommendation to Council;
  Loh Talking Tough
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  July 29 Update: The Princeton Review has recently provided America's binge drinking high school graduates some guidance with regard to America's top "party schools." The [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2009, 8:45am EDT
  

• U.S. Trains Honduran Coup Officers

  July 22, 2009, 8:05 a.m.
  
  Heads We Win, Tails They Lose -- in Honduras
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  It turns out that President Obama and his Administration, while bemoaning the coup in Honduras -- backing, and insisting on the return of, President Manuel Zelaya -- have been training [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2009, 7:21am EDT
  

• Health Costs, Rationing and Hypocrisy

  July 20, 2009, 9:00 a.m.
  
  Two Thoughts on Medical Bills
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  There are a couple aspects of "the cost of health care" I'm going to try to put briefly this morning.
  
  1. I believe that those public officials, and the campaign contributors who' [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2009, 7:09am EDT
  

• How Many Administrators Does It Take?

  July 16, 2009, 8:45 a.m.
  
  Administrators Are Multiplying & Sucking Us Dry
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  July 21 Addendum. This blog entry deals with three aspects of institutional administrators: (1) the number of administrators (do we really need that many?) and their rate of increase compared to [...]
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  Posted: July 16, 2009, 6:37am EDT
  

• Gambling Our Way to Economic Prosperity

  July 14, 2009, 9:00 a.m.
  
  Iowa: A Place to Grow (Your Debt) and Lose Your Green
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  The Press-Citizen has a good editorial this morning regarding the wisdom of increasing the number of Iowa's gambling casinos. l, Editorial, "State shouldn't gamble with any'" [...]
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  Posted: July 14, 2009, 7:46am EDT
  

• Politics & Health Care: Both Rotten to the Core

  July 13, 2009, 8:00 a.m.
  
  Shameful Performance Should be Required Reading
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  I'm angry. Really angry. Why do we take this? Why aren't Americans marching on Washington by the millions?
  
  What the sickness industry and our puppet politicians have been demonstrating about the [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2009, 7:06am EDT
  

• Hancher Relocation Process and Site

  July 10, 2009, 8:30 a.m.
  
  University Offers Useful Model for Major Decisions
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  The way the University of Iowa is going about the Hancher-Voxman-Clapp rebuilding project interests me almost as much in terms of the decision making process and procedure as the ultimate outcome.
  [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2009, 7:20am EDT
  

• UI Law School On Course Full Speed Ahead

  July 9, 2009, 9:30 a.m.
  
  University of Iowa College of Law Doing Fine
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  UI President Sally Mason did a good job the other day of trying to put in perspective some folks' concerns about the University's College of Law.
  
  It's a subject' [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2009, 7:19am EDT
  

• Why GOP Fears Meaningful Health Care

  July 8, 2009, 9:55 a.m.
  
  GOP Sees Democrats Taking Credit for Meaningful Health Care Legislation
  as Partisan Blow to Republican Party
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Update July 23, 2009: As further evidence that the GOP continues, up to this day, to view its opposition to health care as [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2009, 9:39am EDT
  

• Mother Jones' Kevin Drum on Marijuana

  July 7, 2009, 8:15 a.m.
  
  Rare Rational Analysis of Marijuana Legalization
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Coffee is my drug of choice. It's not Kevin Drum's. As he writes in the current issue of one of our country's leading alternative publications, Mother Jones, "I've never smoked a" [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2009, 6:33am EDT
  

• Rare Washington Post Apology Misses Mark

  July 5, 2009, 11:00 a.m.
  
  Post Publisher Blind to Journalism Ethics, Conflict
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  UPDATE (N.J., July 11, 2009): Having been caught in a disastrous ethical blunder, one can at least give the Post credit for having an ombudsperson and permitting him to investigate and reveal [...]
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  Posted: July 05, 2009, 9:31am EDT
  

• Grassley's Health Care Solution & Cities' Lobbyists

  July 3, 2009, 2:15 p.m.
  
  Sen. Grassley Suggests Gov't Health Insurance (and Jobs) for All
  Cedar Rapids Has to Hire Lobbyists to Get Help from Cong. Loebsack
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Neither of those headings are literally true, but they're not all that far off the mark [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:42am EDT
  

• Some Solutions to College Binge Drinking

  July 2, 2009, 11:30 a.m.
  
  More on Binge Drinking -- With Some Suggestions for Solutions
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  On June 28 I posted here an entry headed "UI's AA: Alcohol and Athletics."
  
  [Now, since writing today's entry, I discover we have one more example [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 9:40am EDT
  

• Emancipation from For-Profit Sickness Insurance

  July 1, 2009, 8:30 a.m.
  
  Emancipation from the For-Profit Sickness System
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  "When the going gets tough, the tough . . . get ever more generous with their campaign contributions and lobbying expenses."
  
  The Wall Street Journal reports that "the health-care industry ." [...]
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  Posted: July 01, 2009, 7:13am EDT
  

• UI's AA: Alcohol and Athletics

  June 28, 2009, 8:45 a.m.
  
  Alcohol, Athletics and the Inevitability of the Avoidance of Responsibility
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  We have a serious problem right here in River City, and I've finally and reluctantly come to the conclusion that nothing effective will ever be done about it.' [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2009, 4:02pm EDT
  

• Health Opponents Shown for What They Are

  June 24, 2009, 7:45 a.m., 9:20 a.m.
  
  Where Do They Get This Stuff?
  Ever wonder where and how the opponents of universal-single-payer health care are able to come up with their outrageous assertions?
  
  Here's a video that reveals the answer:
  
  
  
  This video of a "Late'" [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2009, 7:05am EDT
  

• What Do You Mean and How Do You Know?

  June 21, 2009, 3:55 p.m.
  In a blog entry on June 16 I announced the publication of Virtualosity: Eight Students in Search of Cyberlaw (click for preview).
  
  Today (June 21) the second (and last) of this summer's book publishing efforts has been uploaded' [...]
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  Posted: June 21, 2009, 1:39pm EDT
  

• Universal Single-Payer a Necessity Now

  June 19, 2009, 11:20 a.m.
  
  And check out "Virtualosity," June 16, 2009, and its links to prior entries.
  
  Why Universal Single-Payer Health Care is Essential for America
  A month ago in this blog I came out strongly in support of what has come to be called in [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2009, 10:16am EDT
  

• Virtualosity

  
  June 16, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
  
  Just approved for publication today (June 16) and now available from Lulu Press -- with credits to 8 creative Cyberspace Law Seminar students this past spring semester, and graphics designer Gregory Johnson. Virtualosity: Eight Students in Search [...]
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  Posted: June 16, 2009, 7:06pm EDT
  

• Cluster Schools: Potential for IC District?

  June 3, 2009, 6:55 a.m.; June 5, 2009, 11:15 a.m. (addition of comments from Press-Citizen's online version)
  
  From this morning's [June 3] Press-Citizen . . .
  
  Majority or plurality, an Iowa City community consensus is emerging that we need to re-think and re-draw our entire District's elementary school' [...]
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  Posted: June 03, 2009, 6:40am EDT
  

• Air Cars and Constituent Anger

  May 30, 2009, 5:20 p.m.
  
  Weekend Edition
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  
  Contents
  The Prior Post: "Summertime Blogging"
  Another Prior Post: "School Boundaries" and Roosevelt
  Leave No Congressman Behind
  Transportation Innovation: 65 mpg Fords and Air Cars
  
  You may be looking for . [...]
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  Posted: May 30, 2009, 2:47pm EDT
  

• Summertime Blogging

  May 23, 2009, 9:00 a.m.
  
  Summer Reruns
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  
  Contents
  o Chronological Listing Three Years' 650-plus Blog Entries
  
  o March-May 2009 Listing of Sample Entries by Topics
  
  o Planning for the Fall Semester
  _______________
  Summer's coming. From the 80-degree [...]
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  Posted: May 23, 2009, 7:34am EDT
  

• Is Obama Continuing Gitmo Brutality?

  May 21, 2009, 7:45 a.m.
  
  Jeremy Scahill Charges Obama Continues Gitmo "Thug Squad"
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*
  Is there a “Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama”?
  
  Jeremy Scahill charged as much when Amy Goodman interviewed him for "Democracy Now" on [...]
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  Posted: May 21, 2009, 6:34am EDT
  

• Public Option vs. Private Greed

  May 18, 2009, 9:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m. (additional sources and internal contents/links)
  
  We Don't Want Health Insurance,
  We Want a Public Option to Obtain Health Care
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  
  Links to Contents
  Corporate Control
  
  Silencing Public Option Advocates
  
  What's "the" [...]
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  Posted: May 18, 2009, 6:48am EDT
  

• Economic Salvation Through Marshmallows

  May 15, 2009, 9:00 a.m.
  
  Links to 48 Blog Entries Regarding Economy, Bailouts and Personal Finance
  
  Winners' Willpower Not Limited To Marshmallows
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  
  Contents Links
  Tom Ashbrook's "On Point" on Delayed Gratification
  The Marshmallow Experiments
  Our $963 Billion [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2009, 6:36am EDT
  

• Biking's Many Benefits

  For the Week of May 10, 2009; posted May 9, 2009, 5:30 p.m.; May 11, 2009, 6:45 a.m.; May 13, 2009, 7:30 a.m.; May 14, 2009, 5:00 p.m.
  
  Bike for Life
  Bike to Work Week
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  It's "Bike to Work Week," Rob Daniel,' [...]
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  Posted: May 09, 2009, 4:17pm EDT
  

• Bulls, Bars and Brawls

  May 7, 2009, 9:30 a.m.
  
  Red Bull: "the non-stop party-animal's hot secret"
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  "[A] 21-year-old Grand Valley State University student found dead in her off-campus apartment, died from complications due to over-consumption of alcohol, university officials reported . . ..""Alcohol over-consumption is cause of'" [...]
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  Posted: May 07, 2009, 8:02am EDT
  

• Gannett Shoots Straight -- Into Foot

  May 3, 2009, 10:00 a.m.; May 23, 2009, 10:00 a.m. (addition of "The Final Chapter")
  [Looking for the April 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, Swine Flu blog entry? Click here.]
  
  68-Year-Old Subscription Cancelled:
  Seinfeld, Tomlin, and Bedbug Letter Explain Why
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  
  Contents
  [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2009, 9:26am EDT
  

• Smithfield Ham and Flu

  April 26, 2009, 8:00 a.m.; April 27, 2009, 6:00 a.m. (updates), 4:45 p.m. Extra! (See bold heading, "Will Iowans Take Note -- Let Alone Take Charge?" below]; April 28, 2009, 7:15 a.m. (Contents; Times' story); April 29, 2009, 7:30 a.m. (a blog entry that evolves over four days is bound' [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2009, 9:16am EDT
  

• Lombardo and Mayor McCallion

  April 23, 2009, 8:45 a.m.
  
  How's Your Mayor? Compared to What?
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Things are getting a little heavy around the Lombardo mystery, so to give us all a little break I thought I'd do some research on how other cities, city councils, and mayors [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 7:31am EDT
  

• More on Lombardo and 'Public Citizens'

  April 22, 2009, 10:15 a.m., 11:30 a.m. (addition of "What can the City Council disclose?" and Press-Citizen editorial)
  
  And The Beat (-ing up of the City Council) Goes On
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  [See the earlier, related, Nicholas Johnson, "River City's Problem: Council-Manager Governance," April 18,' [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2009, 8:59am EDT
  

• Lombardo Firing Mystery

  April 21, 2009, 6:30 a.m.
  
  Reason for Lombardo Departure Looking More and More Like Governance Issues
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  [Today's blog entry is a follow-up to Nicholas Johnson, "River City's Problem: Council-Manager Governance; The Necessity of Governance Theory and Practice," April 18, 2009, which see [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 6:42am EDT
  

• Susan Boyle as General Semantics Lesson

  April 20, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
  
  What Are General Lessons From Susan Boyle Phenomenon?
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  With an estimated 100 million views of Susan Boyle's performance by this morning [April 20], up from 50 million total for 200 different videos as of' [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2009, 7:02am EDT
  

• River City's Problem: Council-Manager Governance

  April 18, 2009, 1:00 p.m.
  
  The Necessity of Governance Theory and Practice
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  [And see the follow up to this blog entry at Nicholas Johnson, "Lombardo Firing Mystery," April 21, 2009.]
  
  The Iowa City City Council has peremptorily fired its city manager -- [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2009, 11:59am EDT
  

• This One's a 'Must Read'

  April 17, 2009, 8:20 a.m.
  
  What You've Always Wanted to Ask About the Financial Collapse
  Except for Your Fear As to What the Answer Might Be
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Since June 23, 2006, I have written 639 entries for this blog.
  
  Never before have I' [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2009, 5:49am EDT
  

• Banks Declare Their Bailout a Success

  April 16, 2009, 10:30 a.m., 1:40 p.m. (addition of endnotes to sources)
  
  Cash, Credit, and Mortgage Foreclosures
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Things may not be quite as bad as the Onion News Network portrays, but its report sure fingers the problem -- as we'll explore in a' [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 10:05am EDT
  

• Can Economy Produce Americanized Hitler?

  April 15, 2009, 7:15 a.m.
  
  Homeland Security Seems to be Saying:
  Chomsky Got It Right
  (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*)
  Every once in awhile it is the serendipitous confluence of two events that is the story.
  
  Yesterday [April 14] I added the Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 6:04am EDT