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April 15, 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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April 14, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Stray Thoughts

Important reminder: Free speech includes right to criticize government

A constitutional showdown taking shape in southern Iowa’s Decatur County could put taxpayers on the hook financially to defend the county’s efforts to silence a critic of public officials there. [...]

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April 10, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Morain

04/10/25

Rarely, if ever, has Iowa’s congressional delegation found itself situated to alter the course of America’s economy. But right now it can, and one of the six in the delegation [...]

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April 08, 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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April 03, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Morain

04/03/25

There are few comparisons—maybe none—in American history to what President Donald Trump proposes for takeover of Greenland by the United States. Trump refuses to rule out military conquest of the [...]

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April 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Feature 1

Here come the cubbies!

The Iowa Cubs team is an institution in Des Moines. I-Cub fans pack the ballpark all season long and even watch at home. The fan loyalty is evidenced by CITYVIEW [...]

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April 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Feature 3

Iowa Barnstormers return key players for 2025

After a challenging season in 2024, the Iowa Barnstormers are looking to make a comeback for 2025. Barnstormers Head Coach Dave Mogensen and his club entered the season after a [...]

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April 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Feature 2

Drake is winning

  Growing up in 1950s Des Moines, my family’s backdoor neighbor was an elderly German professor of Humanities at Grinnell College. Because our backyards were our baseball fields, we kids [...]

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April 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Business Feature

The business of chocolate

Chocolate isn’t just a treat. It’s a business built on creativity, strategy and its fair share of planning. At three metro chocolate shops, owners are doing all that and more [...]

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April 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel in Civic Skinny

Why is Iowa the only state not to double in population since 1900? How have the tariffs impacted Iowans? And were sharks added to Iowa’s list of dangerous wild animals?

Iowa is the only state in the union that has not seen its population double since 1900. Don’t expect that to be part of our state’s economic development marketing campaign [...]

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