The Iowa Transportation Commission is having its first meeting of the year today in Ames. The agenda is the most pedestrian possible. (Where’s the transfer of jurisdiction of those weird stubs still under state control?)
But off camera, so to speak, is the difference. William “Bill” Petroski, the Des Moines Register‘s transportation reporter (and corrections, and gambling, and more recently Iowa Senate) since before I started to read the paper, is a member of the most recent batch of employees (and all former co-workers of mine) to take buyouts.
(Because Gannett’s websites are intertwined, the links come via the Star-Press in Muncie IN, not to be confused with the Star Press Union, which is a mashup of the Belle Plaine Union and South Benton Star Press that Gannett also owns.)