February 05, 2020 by Brent Antisdel
in Walks of Life
February 05, 2020 by Brent Antisdel
in Accounting
Have you heard about the Disaster Relief Act?
On Dec. 20, 2019, the President signed the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2019. Inside this law, Congress retroactively reinstated several tax deductions that lapsed on Dec. 31, 2017. This means that you can take them on the 2019 federal return and amend your 2018 tax return
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February 05, 2020 by Brent Antisdel
in The Sound
Eli Young Band
Breaking in dusty boots and Little League gloves. During their 20 years of performing, the Eli Young Band members have steadily churned out hit songs. With Billboard hits, Grammy nominations and a Country Music Song of the Year Award for “Crazy Girl,” the band’s success in the country music arena
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February 05, 2020 by Brent Antisdel
in Financial Strategies
The SECURE Act — What you need to know
Attached to the spending bill in late 2019 the President signed into law the most sweeping financial legislation since the Pension Protection Act of 2006. Designed to improve American’s ability to save and to increase access to employer sponsored retirement plans, the SECURE Act provides key incentives to both individuals
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February 05, 2020 by Brent Antisdel
in Duffy
February 05, 2020 by Brent Antisdel
in Lunch With...
Tom Boesen
Discussions of flowers, Valentine’s Day and the changes the flower industry has undergone in his six decades in the business. Tom Boesen is part of a third-generation Des Moines family floral business. In fact, the Ingersoll Boesen’s store opened the day Tom came home from the hospital with his mother.
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February 05, 2020 by Brent Antisdel
in Belly Up To...
Norm’s Pub
A Waukee bar where you can bank on having a good time. A 100-plus-year-old fixture located in the heart of downtown Waukee was formerly a bank, and, most recently, a bar called “Chops.” It was shuttered after the owner’s death. Today, the bar has reopened as Norm’s Pub — an
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February 05, 2020 by Brent Antisdel
in Book Review
Book Reviews
‘A Girl, A Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon’ Ten-year-old Pearl Moran, born in the Lancaster Avenue branch of the NYC public library, where her mom is the circulation librarian, and raised there by her mother and the other staff, begins the story with a piercing shriek as she notices the
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February 05, 2020 by Brent Antisdel
in Art News
Deconstructed tractors
And Kooglians, who are not unfamiliar with Earth. Hedda Sterne’s “Imagination and the Machine” brings a great artist from the WWII era back into mainstream awareness. The Romanian artist, a lucky winner of a wartime U.S. visa lottery, embraced this country like few of the artistic and intellectual genius of
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February 05, 2020 by Brent Antisdel
in At Home With
Mike and Sasha Kamper
Beaverdale is their forever home. While attending Drake University, Sasha Kamper would often drive through the Beaverdale neighborhood and enjoy looking at the cottage-style architecture. She appreciated the character of the older homes and the stability of the neighborhood. “We bought our first home in Beaverdale in 1992 and never
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