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☆ Feeling Down About Politics? The Hospitality of This Iowan Will Give You a Lift.
  + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( John Mccormick | Jennifer Levitz | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
DES MOINES, Iowa—Sharon McNutt is planning on as many as 50 guests piling into her home on Monday evening and doesn’t care if they snack in her kitchen or settle into one of her favorite recliners. And she certainly doesn’t care if they bicker about politics. 245) in southwest Iowa appears to be the last practitioner of a disappearing tradition: hosting precinct meetings in a private home for the Iowa presidential caucuses, which this year will kick off the 2024 Republican nominating process. But a review of the locations where the 1,657 GOP precinct meetings are to be held revealed McNutt’s residence as a one-of-a-kind venue, something a state GOP spokesman confirmed. The rest of the Republican caucuses will be held in schools, libraries, churches and other public places.
Persons: Sharon McNutt, Rice Organizations: DES, Silver City, GOP, Republican Locations: DES MOINES, Iowa
☆ The Last Living-Room Caucus: a 77-Year-Old Mayor Keeps Iowa’s Homey Tradition Alive
  + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( John Mccormick | Jennifer Levitz | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
DES MOINES, Iowa—Sharon McNutt is planning on as many as 50 guests piling into her home on Monday evening and doesn’t care if they snack in her kitchen or settle into one of her favorite recliners. And she certainly doesn’t care if they bicker about politics. 245) in southwest Iowa appears to be the last practitioner of a disappearing tradition: hosting precinct meetings in a private home for the Iowa presidential caucuses, which this year will kick off the 2024 Republican nominating process. But a review of the locations where the 1,657 GOP precinct meetings are to be held revealed McNutt’s residence as a one-of-a-kind venue, something a state GOP spokesman confirmed. The rest of the Republican caucuses will be held in schools, libraries, churches and other public places.
Persons: Sharon McNutt, Rice Organizations: DES, Silver City, GOP, Republican Locations: DES MOINES, Iowa
☆ Rick Singer and Other Notable Figures Who Were Sentenced in the Varsity Blues Scandal
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Melissa Korn | Jennifer Levitz | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Douglas HodgeThe former chief executive of bond giant Pimco was sentenced to nine months in prison after paying $850,000 to the company and charity of Mr. Singer, as well as to Georgetown’s former tennis coach and a University of Southern California account controlled by an administrator who was also charged in the case. Katherine Taylor/Reuters
☆ Developer Who Pleaded Guilty in College Admissions Scandal Dies by Suicide
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Melissa Korn | Jennifer Levitz | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Real-estate developer Robert Flaxman was among dozens of parents charged in the Varsity Blues investigation in 2019. Robert Flaxman , a Southern California real-estate developer who pleaded guilty to a federal fraud conspiracy charge for cheating to get his daughter into college, has died. Mr. Flaxman, 66 years old, died Oct. 20 by suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner.
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