05/02/24
The story of our National Weather Service (NWS) is one of catching up and staying ahead. For more than 200 years, meteorologists, both amateurs and professionals, have steadily employed new [...]
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May 02, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Morain
May 01, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 1
Summer Arts & Entertainment Guide
The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming — and the cicadas are coming. But that won’t stop us, and it shouldn’t stop you, from enjoying the seemingly endless entertainment [...]
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May 01, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Feature 2
Spring Sports Preview
If you are looking for fast-paced sporting action this spring and summer, you are in luck. The Des Moines Menace soccer team and the Iowa Barnstormers arena football team, although [...]
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May 01, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Business Feature
Managing inventory
“Inventory management is what can dictate some of your cash flow. And as we know, in business, cash is king,” said Lisa Shimkat, the state director of America’s Small Business [...]
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May 01, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Civic Skinny
Simonson’s contributions total $285,332. Baltimore bridge collapse impacts Iowa ag. Stowe would be smiling.
Connie Boesen began her term as mayor of Des Moines on Jan. 2, taking over for the city’s longest serving mayor, Frank Cownie. As a result, Boesen’s at-large seat on [...]
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May 01, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Political Mercury
‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’
Deep in the warm hurricane of 1980s nostalgia-minded groups on Facebook are the occasional references to fearful school-kid preparation exercises for a forefront haunt to humanity at the time — [...]
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May 01, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Film Review
‘Rebel Moon: Part 2 – The Scargiver’ falls short
Zack Snyder’s latest foray into the realm of epic sci-fi, “Rebel Moon,” is a grand spectacle of ambition and visual prowess, yet it struggles to break free from its own [...]
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May 01, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Food Dude
Tumea & Sons is a veritable heirloom
The meaning of “heirloom” has been extended this century in American vernacular. It’s not just for nouns anymore. I have seen it used to describe baseball fans, tomatoes, pigs, brand [...]
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May 01, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Des Moines Forgotten
Atheists Caucus in the Heartland
The year was 2011, and I had been in Des Moines for four years. My first feature documentary, “Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer,” premiered at the Des Moines Social Club at [...]
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May 01, 2024 by Brent Antisdel
in Joe's Neighborhood
Two characters and a dog in Woodland Cemetery
The graves sprawl over the bright green and faded brown grass like grazing cattle over the stubble of an Iowa corn field. Narrow blacktop roads meander here and there across [...]
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