05/04/23
The mental health of young people depends to a great extent on how they interact with their peers. At COVID’s height, isolation bred anxiety and its accompanying downsides, like cyberbullying, [...]
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May 02, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in Morain
May 02, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Keeping Iowa in the dark is not acceptable
If you watch the Iowa Legislature in action, there are some truisms you see time and again. Such as: Each political party is in favor of transparency and accountability — [...]
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April 27, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in Morain
04/27/23
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, OR to the people.” —Tenth Amendment [...]
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April 26, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in 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), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. [...]
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April 26, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Who knew there are 2 sides to waste, fraud, abuse?
I thought the often-repeated desire to weed out waste, fraud and abuse from government spending was something Republicans, Democrats and independents could all agree on in Iowa. Boy, am I [...]
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April 18, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in 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), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. [...]
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April 17, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
It was a week to celebrate accountability
Last week was one to savor. But it also was a week to reflect on how far we still need to travel to have true citizen engagement in our state [...]
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April 13, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in Morain
04/13/23
How important is it to maintain decorum in a legislative body? And how serious must a disruption of decorum by members be to justify their expulsion from that body? Pundits [...]
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April 11, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in 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), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. [...]
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April 11, 2023 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
Have we forgotten how to agree to disagree?
My friend Denny and I were as different as night and day. He was conservative; I wasn’t. I accused him of being to the right of Atilla the Hun. He [...]
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