Randy Evans
Columnist at CITYVIEW Magazine
Retired Des Moines Register journalist. Now works and advocates for gov't openness, accountability. I write a newspaper column weekly (and, sometimes, weakly).
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bleedingheartland.com | Randy Evans |Bruce Lear |Laura Belin |Sue Dinsdale
Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes openness and transparency in Iowa’s state and local governments. He can be reached at [email protected]. A constitutional showdown taking shape in southern Iowa’s Decatur County could put taxpayers on the hook financially to defend the county’s efforts to silence a critic of public officials there.
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dmcityview.com | Randy Evans
A constitutional showdown taking shape in southern Iowa’s Decatur County could put taxpayers on the hook financially to defend the county’s efforts to silence a critic of public officials there. The Institute for Justice, a national nonprofit law firm, wrote Decatur County Attorney Alan Wilson last week expressing its concerns about Wilson’s recent threat to Rita Audlehelm that she could be sued for defamation for her comments in a letter to the editor published in the Leon Journal-Reporter.
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dmcityview.com | Randy Evans
Stray Thoughts 3/25/2025As the president, governors and legislators elevate the stress and anxiety in higher education in the United States by seeking to change how colleges and universities operate and what they teach, the contrast between how an Ivy League school and an Iowa university responded shows the courage gap among college leaders.
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emailinc.net | Randy Evans |Darren Tromblay
Tuesday touts• There’s more good news on the ethnic cafe front. Touts for El Rincon Cubano, next door to the Mexican Market on Second Avenue and with no rincons anywhere nearby. Try the beef tail. Plus it's open till 10 p.m. and midnight on weekends. • The best of the best cooking knives. Wall Street Journal turned their Buy Side staff loose on cooking knives.
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dyersvillecommercial.com | Randy Evans |Randy Evans
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In an unusual move, the Iowa Supreme Court today removed a judicial magistrate for his inappropriate comments made in two cases. https://t.co/nBEx6D4nTR
