July 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Your View
July 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Commercial Real Estate Transactions in Polk County from March 10, 2025, to March 28, 2025
4300 WESTOWN PARKWAY, WEST DES MOINES SALE DATE: 2025-03-10 SALE PRICE: $892,000 SELLER: GSL LLC BUYER: TRINITY INVESTMENT FIRM LLC ACRES: 9.942 SQUARE FEET: 107,068 3401 S.W. 61ST ST., DES MOINES SALE DATE: 2025-03-11 SALE PRICE: $575,000 SELLER: WEST LAKES PROPERTIES LC BUYER: STATE OF IOWA ACRES: 2.291 SQUARE FEET: 0
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July 02, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Belly Up To...
Guesthouse Tavern+Oyster
Step into the Guesthouse Tavern+Oyster and you might think you’re in a lodge, alongside a lake or river located in northern Wisconsin or bordering Minnesota. But you’re not. Instead, you’re in West Des Moines in a strip mall bordering Waukee. The Guesthouse Tavern+Oyster opened in February 2024 and was established
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June 24, 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), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz The Culture Buzz Podcast Library – https://archive.org/details/@the_culture_buzz 2014 Iowa Governor’s Award for Partnership &
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June 17, 2025 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. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz The Culture Buzz Podcast Library –
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June 17, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
There’s more at stake in Iowa than brown lawns
People living in central Iowa received a wake-up call last week that should drag water-quality back in front of the state’s 3.2 million residents. Iowa’s largest water supplier, one serving a fifth of the state’s homes and businesses, ordered its 600,000 customers to immediately reduce water demand by ending lawn-watering
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June 12, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Morain
06/12/25
Iowa’s DOGE task force, a Governor Reynolds’ creation channeling the 2025 federal DOGE Department headed until recently by Elon Musk, last week discussed the possible consolidation of counties in Iowa. Various committees, commissions, boards, organizations, individual legislators, and other Iowans take up the idea every so often. The proposal, like
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June 10, 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), bringing you music, literature & cultural content. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz The Culture Buzz Podcast Library –
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June 09, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Stray Thoughts
A modern day version of ‘Pride and Prejudice’
Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” focused on manners and goodness, two virtues sometimes forgotten today. Shortly before the novel was published, our Founding Fathers settled on the free exchange of ideas as one of the fundamental concepts they wanted to guarantee in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But
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June 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Morain
06/05/25
Donald Trump got it half right about the recent omnibus tax-plus-everything else bill that the U.S. House passed on Tuesday last week. It’s big, but it ain’t beautiful. The bill worries many, many Americans over the implications of its economic impacts, particularly those of modest incomes and of advanced years.
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