Posted November 27, 2025in Morain
Most of the top leaders of both political parties converged on Washington’s National Cathedral a week ago to honor the memory of former Vice President Dick Cheney at his funeral service. As former President George W. Bush’s Veep from 2001 to 2009, Cheney played a key role on foreign and
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Posted November 25, 2025in The Culture Buzz
From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, Mainframe Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, Iowa comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning indie radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. Quote of the Week – “The proper function of (wo)man is to live,
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Posted November 24, 2025in Stray Thoughts
While the text of the Iowa Constitution lacks the prominence of that adopted by our nation’s Founding Fathers, people from Ackley to Zwingle and points in between should track down a copy and give it a read. Buried away in the document adopted by Iowa voters in 1857, they will
Read More →(November 19, 2025) – Diamond Vogel and Keep Iowa Beautiful continue their longstanding partnership of brightening communities across the state through the Paint Iowa Beautiful grant program. The Paint Iowa Beautiful program provides grant recipients free paint to support a wide range of public service and community betterment projects, from
Read More →The City received the designation for achieving some of the highest resident ratings in the 2024 National Community Survey. CLIVE, IA – Clive has been named the National Champion for Excellence in Trust in Government by Polco’s Best in Governance Awards – an honor reserved for communities that earn the
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Posted November 20, 2025in Morain
Thanksgiving gets short shrift these days. The Christmas commercialism colossus, burgeoning every year, now occupies a super-sized chunk of November that used to be the province of the Thanksgiving holiday. Christmas backloads ever-farther into autumn, diverting attention from what once was an appropriate pause for gratitude between harvest and the
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Posted November 18, 2025in The Culture Buzz
From Iowa’s cultural epicenter, Mainframe Studios at 900 Keosauqua Way in Des Moines, Iowa comes your Listener-supported Community Voice, the Award-Winning indie radio station, KFMG-LP 98.9 FM (streaming simultaneously at www.kfmg.org), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. Quote of the Week – “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
Read More →DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for November are being issued following the resolution of the federal government shutdown. This comes as a critical relief for more than 130,000 Iowa households who rely on SNAP
Read More →DES MOINES, IA — The Des Moines Symphony’s third Masterworks program of the 2025–2026 season, Strength – Scottish Highlands & Eroica, will be performed at 7:30 PM on Saturday, November 22, and 2:30 PM on Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the Des Moines Civic Center (221 Walnut Street, Des Moines).
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Posted November 13, 2025in Morain
By the time you read this column, it may be irrelevant. I hope so. But I doubt it. Assuming the federal government is still partially shut down by the column’s publication on Thursday, November 13, we will have endured it for 44 days, a month and a half since it
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