11/16/23
Rooting for one political side or the other in America today increasingly resembles rooting for a sports team. They’re not the same thing. On the surface they do appear similar: [...]
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Posted November 16, 2023in Morain
Posted November 15, 2023in Just Released
DMACC BREAKS GROUND ON NEW $9 MILLION TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
DMACC starts construction on a new 8,600-square-foot Transportation Institute. Project funding includes a $1 million donation from DMACC alumnus Dennis Albaugh and a $1 million grant from the State [...]
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Posted November 14, 2023in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, MainFrame Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning independent radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), [...]
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Posted November 14, 2023in Just Released
CATHOLIC CHARITIES’ FOOD PANTRY FEEDS THE HUNGRY THIS THANKGIVING
(Des Moines, IA) Catholic Charities’ Food Pantry, in partnership with St. Pius X parish in Urbandale, IA, will distribute hundreds of turkeys and other holiday meats during their annual Giving [...]
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Posted November 13, 2023in Stray Thoughts
Uneasy times as a librarian shuts out other ideas
The word for today is optics — but not the kind where your eye doctor is an expert. Instead of eyeglasses, I am thinking about the kind of optics that [...]
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Posted November 09, 2023in Just Released
VA Veterans enjoy free breakfast delivered
Des Moines , IA — Veterans who are current residents at the VA Central Iowa Medical Center were treated to a free breakfast delivered to them at the VA campus [...]
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Posted November 09, 2023in Just Released
Local Mediacom Employees Earn Company’s Top Service Awards
Des Moines, IA – NOVEMBER 9, 2023 – Mediacom Communications recognized 31 Des Moines-area employees who achieved the company’s top performance rankings and earned national and regional awards for outstanding [...]
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Posted November 09, 2023in Just Released
FAREWAY AND IOWA FARM BUREAU DONATE OVER 57,000 LBS. OF GROUND PROTEIN TO IOWA FOOD BANKS
NEWS RELEASE (Boone, IA) – Fareway Stores Inc. and Iowa Farm Bureau partnered together to donate 57,863 lbs. of ground protein to food banks across Iowa in the ‘Meat the [...]
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Posted November 09, 2023in Morain
There’s heavy lifting to be done
“Nightmarish” accurately describes the challenges both Israel and the Palestinian residents of Gaza confront in the Israel-Hamas war, now more than a month old. The Biden Administration no doubt perceives [...]
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Posted November 07, 2023in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Catalysts:
From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, MainFrame Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning independent radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), [...]
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