Years ago, when I was a young pup of a reporter for the Des Moines Register, my assignment was covering state and federal courts. Normally, it amounted to reporting on the dirty laundry of society that gets scrubbed in the courts โ the murders, the robberies, the embezzlements and the civil lawsuits. But whenever time […]
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