Rethinking the trades
Trade schools — now categorized as Career and Technical Education Programs (CTE) — encompass more than electrical, plumbing or welding. Although these trades are still popular, community colleges including Des [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Business Feature
April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Civic Skinny
Most valuable NCAA basketball teams. Some concerning scores. No sweat. And the ‘model’ governor?
In the aftermath of March Madness, the Wall Street Journal released a ranking of the most valuable NCAA college basketball teams. As you may expect, two of the sports’ most [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Political Mercury
Why Josh Turek is Iowa Democrats’ best candidate for U.S. Senate
Many politicians can persuade you to believe in them. That’s a commonly reached feat. But the defining leaders, elected officials like Tom Harkin, Robert Ray, Henry Wallace and Harold Hughes, [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Film Review
The strange and alluring magic of ‘A Minecraft Movie’
Well, let’s just get this out of the way. If you’re reading this, this movie probably isn’t for you. No disrespect, of course. I mean it in the sense that [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Food Dude
Los Laureles — it’s still the one
In 1989, CITYVIEW predecessor Skywalker began publishing the column “Since I Quit Drinking.” It was a take on the Rip Van Winkle legend that used new sobriety as awakening to [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Des Moines Forgotten
When Tiny Tim was in Des Moines
I am writing this on the Monday following Record Store Day weekend, and, with all honesty, I didn’t indulge this year. I’m already sitting on more than 2,000 LPs, which [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Joe's Neighborhood
Well, that was something
“Well, that was something,” she said out of the blue on a Tuesday. A phrase she was fond of saying for nearly any event from the grand to the not-so-grand. [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Center Stage
New theatre company debuts
Periodically, new stage tribes form, answering the calls of their muses. They want to offer new perspectives in central Iowa’s performing scene. Some previous names that float through the memory [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Belly Up To...
Smoking Goat Pub
“GOAT” doesn’t just refer to a hay-eating, climbing, hooved domestic animal. It is also an acronym — Greatest Of All Time — often referring to sports icons. Yet there is [...]
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April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Walks of Life
Homes away from home
The decision to host a foreign exchange student can come with a myriad of worries. Will the student want to eat the food we make? Will everyone get along? How [...]
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