Rod Sullivan on "Non-Workshop afflilated Iowa City area authors"
Larry Baker, Michelle Edwards, and Steven Bloom should be added to your list!
View ArticleJeff Charis-Carlson on "Issues to Watch Update -- Iowa City UNESCO City of...
<i>Earlier this year, the Press-Citizen Editorial Board identified 10 issues to watch in 2010. Here is a draft of the fifth in a series of editorials analyzing how those issues look nearly six...
View ArticleJeff Charis-Carlson on "Issues to Watch Update -- Redistricting"
<i>Earlier this year, the Press-Citizen Editorial Board identified 10 issues to watch in 2010. Here is the first in a series of editorials analyzing how those issues look nearly six months...
View ArticleJeff Charis-Carlson on "Issues to Watch Update -- Hancher"
<i> Earlier this year, the Press-Citizen Editorial Board identified 10 issues to watch in 2010. Here is the second of a series of editorials analyzing how those issues look nearly six months...
View ArticleJeff Charis-Carlson on "Issues to Watch Update -- Downtown"
<i> Earlier this year, the Press-Citizen Editorial Board identified 10 issues to watch in 2010. Here is the third of a series of editorials analyzing how those issues look nearly six months...
View ArticleJeff Charis-Carlson on "Issues to Watch Update -- Flood recovery"
<i>Earlier this year, the Press-Citizen Editorial Board identified 10 issues to watch in 2010. Here is the fourth of a series of editorials analyzing how those issues look nearly six months...
View ArticleJeff Charis-Carlson on "Maybe posting book reviews will spark some...
Here's a draft of my review of Maureen Gibbon's "Thief." She'll be reading Monday (June 28) at Prairie Lights.If you’re looking for a novel that describes the beauty of a northern Minnesota summer —...
View ArticleJeff Charis-Carlson on "Iowa City v. Housing Fellowship"
Here's a draft of Wednesday's "Our View"When the Scattered Site Housing Taskforce made its recommendations to the Iowa City Council back in 2005, it began by issuing two general policy objectives:* No....
View ArticleCharles Eastham on "Maybe posting book reviews will spark some conversation...
This is a bit amiss of Jeff's post but he asked a few days ago for suggestions about authors from Iowa City. Ruth Carlsen was a children's author who, I believe, was living in Iowa City when she wrote...
View ArticleBruce Wheaton on "Issues to Watch Update -- Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature"
jeff concludes:"But if Iowa City UNESCO wants to continue to prove that it is a worthwhile investment in the local creative economy, it will have to do more than just slap a logo on existing programs....
View ArticleCharlotte Walker on "Would the PC staff please explain this? "...being...
This morning I noticed this staff comment on the profile page of someone who usally makes what I consider very good comments. "This community member's page is currently being reviewed by the editors....
View ArticleMatt Brown on "Would the PC staff please explain this? "...being reviewed by...
It probably means that the P-C Staff is reviewing all of that user's posts, as they've violated the ToS too many times and are *this* close to being banned from the site.A single user clicking Report...
View ArticleCharlotte Walker on "Would the PC staff please explain this? "...being...
I checked the member's profile page today - clarencejohnson -- and that statement about review has been removed. This is not a member who has a lot of messages removed for abuse of terms of service. It...
View ArticleCharlotte Walker on "In case you missed it -- Photos taken by DM Register at...
Here is the link to the photo collection published on July 11th about Regency Mobile Home...
View ArticleCharlotte Walker on "Something going wrong on the regular comments --...
Today two posts, one each by two separate members, have not appeared under an opinion piece without any notation that they were removed by staff. The two posts that I know about **for sure** are still...
View ArticleCharlotte Walker on "Something going wrong on the regular comments --...
Today I found, just as I suspected might happen when I made the post above, that the posts in question have now been removed from both comment sections of the profile pages. But there is no notation...
View ArticleCharlotte Walker on "Something going wrong on the regular comments --...
I just had another post removed from this same thread. It was removed almost immediately but I did get a copy of it before it disappeared. Here is what I wrote:"cw76ic wrote:Case of the disappearing...
View ArticleCharlotte Walker on "Something going wrong on the regular comments --...
I just made the following post below in the comments thread under the Guest Opinion about Inflamatory and Devisive Rhetoric, which is where the disappearing comments took place. "After seeing that my...
View ArticleLinda Schreiber on "School to start August 19!"
Just found out that school will start in two and a half weeks (plus a day) on August 19 . . . is it really necessary to begin school so early?
View ArticleCharles Eastham on "Non-Workshop afflilated Iowa City area authors"
Anna Anthony, author of "Mango Ice Cream"
View ArticleMeghann Foster on "Pre-Removal Plans for Kids Entering Foster Care"
This is a response to the August 13th editorial regarding pre-removal plans for families whose children will enter the foster care system. Two of our four children were adopted from the foster care...
View ArticleChris Liebig on "School supplies"
At the start of every year, our school (like all schools in town, I assume) asks the parents to buy a set of school supplies. This year my family (with three kids in elementary school) spent about $200...
View ArticleMike Haverkamp on "Non-Workshop afflilated Iowa City area authors"
David Morrell was an English Prof at UI but not with the workshop. He was here from 1970 to 1986. He wrote his first novel, "First Blood" here (the basis for the "Rambo" movies, and actually a pretty...
View ArticleCharlotte Walker on "Vicious hateful comments on "Officer hurt stopping...
Related to the 8/26/10 Press Citizen story by Lee Hermiston with the headline of"Officer hurt stopping alleged suicide...
View ArticleRod Sullivan on "Vicious hateful comments on "Officer hurt stopping alleged...
There are a lot of very hurtful posts out there. I wish the Press Citizen would do the right thing and quit aiding and abetting those who try to hurt others.Rod Sullivan
View ArticleChris Offutt on "boxing at 4-H fairgrounds"
Where is the coverage of local people doing well?Such as the Kleinfelter sisters, both of whom vanquished their opponents in a pro boxing event in Johnson County on Friday, August 27th. (Not to mention...
View ArticleMichael Conroy on "Vicious hateful comments on "Officer hurt stopping alleged...
The problem isn't the posts. The problem is the social conditions that create the anger, that in turn that create them. As long as we live in a society that is characterized by social injustice and...
View ArticleLinda Schreiber on "Non-Workshop afflilated Iowa City area authors"
David Morrell was a wonderful instructor.
View ArticleJeff Charis-Carlson on "Grant Wood's legacy"
Here's a draft of tomorrow's "Our View" in response to Tripp Evans' new biography, "Grant Wood: A Life."In 2002, during an effort to push for a Federal Marriage Amendment, a lobbying group suggested...
View ArticleJeff Charis-Carlson on "Grant Wood -- Part I"
In 2002, during an effort to push for a Federal Marriage Amendment, a lobbying group suggested that the proposed legislation should be renamed “the American Gothic Amendment” because it was “designed...
View ArticleJeff Charis-Carlson on "Grant Wood -- Part II"
“Is this the book that finally outs Grant Wood?”That's the question many people asked me variations of that question after hearing my description of R. Tripp Evans’s new biography “Grant Wood: A Life.”...
View ArticleChris Liebig on "Sacrificing thought for "good behavior""
This is just a post to reply to some of the points made by the commenters on my guest opinion piece in today’s Press-Citizen (which is here:...
View ArticleLinda Schreiber on "21 Ordinance"
Today's article, "Another downtown bar, 808, closes," reports other bars may also close. Readers may draw their own conclusions as I have - bars were profiting from patrons who were under the age of...
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