Susan R. Wilson doesn’t do beige
Waves of rolling farmland and crop lines often shows up in Susan R. Wilson’s colorful artwork. Being born and raised on an Iowa farm, the inspiration for her paintings arose [...]
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August 06, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Iowa Artist
August 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Commercial real estate transactions in Polk County
5030 E. 14TH ST., DES MOINES SALE DATE: 2025-04-01 SALE PRICE: $820,000 SELLER: CAPITOL FOODS LTD BUYER: JBB DES MOINES LLC ACRES: 1.246 SQUARE FEET: 0 4995 MERLE HAY ROAD, [...]
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August 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
Greetings, Cultural Adventurers:
Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate View this email in your browser Wednesday, August 6, 2024 Delivering THE CULTURE BUZZ weekly since 2007 Broadcast regionally on KFMG 98.9 FM, 11 [...]
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August 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Lots of unanswered questions need answering
One of the frustrations of being a **former** newspaper editor is no longer having a few dozen reporters to pursue answers to questions going unasked and unanswered each day.Two of [...]
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July 31, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Morain
07/31/25
A FRENCH GAMBLE French President Emmanuel Macron shook up world diplomatic circles last Thursday with his announcement that come September, France will recognize Palestine as an independent nation. How much [...]
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July 29, 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 you music, literature & cultural content. [...]
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July 28, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Demolition reflects poorly on Iowa officials’ stewardship
My family has called Davis County home for 185 years, all the way back to when William D. Evans and William Henson climbed down from their wagons in 1839 [...]
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July 24, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Morain
07/24/25
THE BILLIONAIRE SPECTRUM I’ve been thinking lately about wealth. Not mine – I’m woefully short on acquaintance and familiarity with the subject, and that’s not going to change. But as [...]
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July 22, 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), [...]
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July 21, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
When waste-cutters miss what looks like, umm, waste
Andy McKean is a charming country lawyer from Anamosa. He grew up in New York and was drawn to Iowa by his family roots. He has owned a bed-and-breakfast, called [...]
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