Posted May 07, 2024in The Culture Buzz
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), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz The Culture Buzz Archive Library –
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Posted May 07, 2024in Stray Thoughts
The events of the past six months in Israel and Gaza have me wishing it were possible to have just one more lunch with a friend who died four years ago. My friend was Jewish. In today’s vocabulary, he would be called an ardent Zionist. He had little patience for
Read More →DES MOINES – The Iowa Department of Education today announced a graduation rate of 87.5% for Iowa’s class of 2023. Lower than graduation rates reported in previous years, the 2023 rate was calculated using a newly corrected code after the department identified an error in the legacy calculation code that
Read More →DES MOINES – Ninety-eight Iowa students earned top honors in the National History Day in Iowa Contest Monday and advanced to compete in the national contest in June. The ninety-eight students emerged from a total of 500 competitors in Monday’s state contest at the Iowa Event Center in Des Moines.
Read More →DES MOINES – The trustees of the new cooperative regional drinking water authority, Central Iowa Water Works, met for the first time as a board to select officers and an interim executive director who could possibly oversee the entity for the remainder of 2024. The Central Iowa Water Works (CIWW)
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Posted May 02, 2024in Morain
The story of our National Weather Service (NWS) is one of catching up and staying ahead. For more than 200 years, meteorologists, both amateurs and professionals, have steadily employed new scientific discoveries to gather atmospheric information and use it to predict pending weather conditions. Without their knowledge and messaging, damage
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Posted May 01, 2024in Feature 1
The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming — and the cicadas are coming. But that won’t stop us, and it shouldn’t stop you, from enjoying the seemingly endless entertainment that graces central Iowa during its warmest months. Artwork from the world-renowned to the area’s brightest up and coming talents.
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Posted May 01, 2024in Feature 2
If you are looking for fast-paced sporting action this spring and summer, you are in luck. The Des Moines Menace soccer team and the Iowa Barnstormers arena football team, although being quite different, provide a similar atmosphere for their current and soon-to-be fans. On the following pages, we share some
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Posted May 01, 2024in Business Feature
“Inventory management is what can dictate some of your cash flow. And as we know, in business, cash is king,” said Lisa Shimkat, the state director of America’s Small Business Development Center Iowa (SBDC Iowa). Business is all about maximizing profits and minimizing costs. Inventory management is the same way.
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Posted May 01, 2024in Civic Skinny
Connie Boesen began her term as mayor of Des Moines on Jan. 2, taking over for the city’s longest serving mayor, Frank Cownie. As a result, Boesen’s at-large seat on the city council needed to be filled. Five candidates — Dr. Claudia Addy, Benjamin Clarke, Justyn Lewis, Mike Simonson and
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