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  2. Reader's Watchdog: Failed bill means mobile home rules still shaky

    The call came from Regency Manor, a sprawling, well-kept mobile home park in Des Moines near Southridge Mall.

  3. Reader's Watchdog: Simpson College not giving up on plan to close busy street

    The president of Simpson College scratched a scheduled appearance at tonight's planning and zoning commission meeting in Indianola, where he was expected to present a new plan that would close a stretch of a city street that runs through campus.

  4. Reader's Watchdog: Does a city have the right to close a street?

    Sally Johnson, left, Charlotte Guilford and Bonnie McKinney are upset about the potential closing of a section of C Street in Indianola, shown behind them. MARY CHIND/THE REGISTER

    In the life of a city, the fate of one street could be a small matter or a big one — depending, of course, on where that street leads.

  5. Reader's Watchdog: How a sandwich shop sidewalk turned into a 12-year courtroom boondoggle

    Richard Mueller, who's fighting the city about beautification improvements, he was required to make around the parking lot and sidewalk. Mueller has been fighting the city since March 2011 on neighborhood beautification improvements he was required to make after adding a couple parking spaces to his business. Other businesses in the area have not had to, including AE and the ice cream shop next door. He wonders why the city hasn't had to condemn the land and reimburse property owners to make the changes. Rodney White/The Register

    This one began as a garden-variety dispute between a businessman and the city of Des Moines over changes made to a parking lot at a Subway sandwich shop.

  6. Reader's Watchdog: Iowa City workers' comp case will be prosecuted

    The Iowa attorney general's office has been asked to make an Iowa City trash hauler the poster child in Iowa for what can happen when an employer fails to carry workers' compensation insurance.

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