The DMACC Board of Trustees unanimously approved Angela Williams Jackson, Senior Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Athene USA, to serve part of the remaining term of retiring board member Fred Buie. Jackson will be on the ballot during the next school board election date, scheduled for November
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Posted August 29, 2022in Stray Thoughts
President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel up to $10,000 in federal student loans for many borrowers is fair game for vigorous debate — and disagreement.Americans have been debating and disagreeing for 246 years. What jumps out in this latest dispute is how some politicians are blind to the inconsistencies in
Read More →Carousel Theatre of Indianola’s production of “Next to Normal” won the award for best musical, while Iowa Stage Theatre’s staging of “The Cake” won the award for best play during the seventh annual Cloris Awards Ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 28, at the Jamie Hurd Amphitheater in West Des Moines. Named
Read More →Internationally award-winning pianist, composer, and improviser Charlie Albright will substitute for Joyce Yang on October 22 & 23, performing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini DES MOINES — The Des Moines Symphony (DMSO) today announced that renowned concert pianist Charlie Albright will join the Symphony to performRachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a
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Posted August 26, 2022in Stray Thoughts
Not all of the best medicine comes with a prescription from a physician. Don’t read this to mean I am advocating treating coronavirus with ivermectin, a drug more often used on horses. That’s not what is on my mind today. Recent news has left many of us discouraged. Floods, wind
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Posted August 25, 2022in Morain
We’re only about 1½ weeks shy of Labor Day, the unofficial starting point of the general election campaign. Of course, candidates and their teams have been campaigning for many months now. But we voters start paying more attention to election matters in early September, just a couple of months before
Read More →DALLAS, TX: As the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition (NOCC) moves boldly forward in 2022, they invite ovarian cancer survivors, caregivers, and advocates to join them in person for its flagship Together in TEAL® run/walk events across the country. Iowa’s 15th annual walk, “Together in Teal – Ending Ovarian Cancer” is
Read More →11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Central Time. Broadcast regionally on KFMG 98.9 FM; Simultaneously streaming globally through www.kfmg.org From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, MainFrame Studios Building at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning independent radio station KFMG-LP 98.9 FM, bringing you music, literature & cultural news. — John Busbee for The Culture
Read More →WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (Aug. 16, 2022) — Hy-Vee Chairman and CEO Randy Edeker has named Jeremy Gosch as CEO and president of Hy-Vee’s retail operations as well as vice chairman of Hy-Vee’s Board of Directors. Gosch will lead alongside Aaron Wiese, who will serve as CEO and president of
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Marijuana should be legal. Moderation in all things.
Last September in an essay I wrote for The Des Moines Register, I advocated the legalization of recreational marijuana (“It’s time to legalize recreational marijuana in Iowa and nationally,” Sept 26). In the past week, the editorial board of USA TODAY raised similar concerns in calling for federal legalization of
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