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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				in Business Feature
									
            	                				
                				
				April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
				
				in Business Feature
				
				
			
				
		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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				in Civic Skinny
									
            	                				
                				
				April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
				
				in Civic Skinny
				
				
			
				
		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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				in Political Mercury
									
            	                				
                				
				April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
				
				in Political Mercury
				
				
			
				
		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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				in Film Review
									
            	                				
                				
				April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
				
				in Film Review
				
				
			
				
		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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				in Food Dude
									
            	                				
                				
				April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
				
				in Food Dude
				
				
			
				
		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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				in Des Moines Forgotten
									
            	                				
                				
				April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
				
				in Des Moines Forgotten
				
				
			
				
		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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				in Joe's Neighborhood
									
            	                				
                				
				April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
				
				in Joe's Neighborhood
				
				
			
				
		“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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				in Center Stage
									
            	                				
                				
				April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
				
				in Center Stage
				
				
			
				
		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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				in Belly Up To...
									
            	                				
                				
				April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
				
				in Belly Up To...
				
				
			
				
		“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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				in Walks of Life
									
            	                				
                				
				April 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
				
				in Walks of Life
				
				
			
				
		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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