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October 28, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in The Culture Buzz

Greetings, Cultural Adventurers:

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 [...]

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October 28, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Stray Thoughts

Board of Regents should remember its freedom of expression policy

Not surprisingly these days, free speech on college campuses is back in the headlines. That makes it worthwhile to highlight the seven-page policy the Iowa Board of Regents wrote to [...]

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October 21, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in 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), [...]

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October 16, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Morain

10/16/25

As I write this column on Sunday, October 12, the United States government is still shut down. Federal employee are not getting paid.  No, wait, that’s not quite true. MOST [...]

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October 14, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in The Culture Buzz

Greetings, Cultural Adventurers:

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 [...]

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October 13, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Stray Thoughts

Confusion results from differing applications of teachers’ rights

The nation’s founders got right to the point when they laid out how to treat the First Amendment freedoms of religion, speech, the press and the rights of people to [...]

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October 09, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Press Release

Coming to Iowa: Penetrating truth, authentic rural voice, define Beth Macy’s new book ‘Paper Girl’ in this urgent, anxious American moment

“Dopesick” author, award-winning journalist, headlining Des Moines book festival this Saturday. The Political Mercury’s Douglas Burns will interview Macy in featured event on her book. Through what political scientists might [...]

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October 09, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Morain

10/09/25

Kathy and I returned last Friday from three days in the Black Hills, communing with two of my graduate school former housemates and their spouses. It’s a reunion that takes [...]

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October 07, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in The Culture Buzz

Greetings, Cultural Adventurers:

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 [...]

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October 07, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Stray Thoughts

Toddlers know, so why can’t school officials learn?

The lesson of the hot stove emerged again last week. That is the lesson toddlers learn early and smart ones retain for a lifetime. Touch something hot and you know [...]

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