Who doesn’t want to be the best? In some way, I believe we all do. In most cases, being “good enough” simply isn’t good enough. We want to do better. “Good enough” are words frequently heard coming out of the mouths of the underachievers of the world. You have
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February 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Walks of Life
What kids, strapped into the backseats of their parents’ cars, gazing through the gaps between the front seats and watching the road ahead, don’t think how great it will be when they are in the driver’s seat? And not just any driver’s seat, but the seat of their very own
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February 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Lunch With...
Trang Pham and her sister, Thien Olson, are young immigrants making their way in entrepreneurial Iowa while also holding down impressive day jobs and becoming family nuclei. We asked them to lunch and met at Trang’s newest Eggroll Ladies café, in the Equitable Building. When I arrived, Trang explained that
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February 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Food Dude
Joe and Red Giudicessi bought Christopher’s in 1961. The purchase included a sign too expensive to replace, so they kept the name someone else liked. Before that, they ran a tavern on East Locust. “It was called Rosie’s, where Bar Nico is now. The main clientele was streetwalkers and cops,
Read More →What years had the least and most laws passed in Iowa’s General Assembly? To answer this question, we dug into the online records for the Iowa legislature, which date back to 1915. In those first years with records available, when adding together the number of House Files and Senate Files
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February 05, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Sound Circuit
There’s a king of pop. A king of rock. And there’s an Iowa king of guitar as well. Although that’s not Bob Pace’s definition of himself. But take a listen to decide for yourself. When I first heard Pace’s shredding guitar, I was mesmerized. His Eric Clapton/Buddy Guy/Jimmy Page mash-up
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February 04, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in The Culture Buzz
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 &
Read More →Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird again tried to put herself in the national spotlight last week as leader of a group of Republican attorneys general who fixed their sights on Costco over the warehouse retailer’s DEI policies. The state attorneys sent a stern warning letter telling the company, “We …
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January 30, 2025 by Brent Antisdel
in Just Released
Des Moines, IA – State Auditor Rob Sand today released a special investigation of Children and Families of Iowa (CFI), a non-profit partially funded with federal tax dollars allocated by the U.S. Department of Labor and administered by Iowa Workforce Development (IWD). Sand’s investigation uncovered the misuse of $436,179 by
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