Archive for November 2016
YMCA branches to make child care available on Election Day
The YMCA of Greater Des Moines will provide child care services at all nine of its branches on Election Day, Nov. 8, to make it easier for parents to vote. The program, called Zoe’s Kids Day Out, …
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McLellan: How many fields are too many?
Whether you recognize the term or not, you’ve all seen and many of you have created gated content. That term refers to putting something on your website or landing page that people want and asking …
Read MoreThe Elbert Files: Things we’ve never seen before
With Donald Trump, everything is the best or the worst, the most amazing or an absolute disaster. There is no gray, no shading, no subtleties. For much of the past year, the Republican candidate for …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Jackie Norris
Jackie Norris ran President Barack Obama’s campaign in Iowa, served as Michelle Obama’s chief of staff and taught in Rome. She’s a self-described “jogger” and triathlete who admits being prone to working long hours. But …
Read MoreLeaders Survey 2016
For our annual Business Record Leaders Survey, we surveyed the Business Record audience on 16 business issues in order to capture the pulse of our readers.
Below we have the results of all the questions …
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Leaders Survey
The business community answers 16 topics affecting our region.
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Read MoreNOTEBOOK: The failed music career of Bill Even
Agricultural leader Bill Even, who returned to the Des Moines area this year to run the National Pork Board, can tell you everything you want to know about raising hogs. In an interview for a …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Solheim Cup eyes record, sells staffers on Des Moines
None of the six Solheim Cup staffers are from Iowa. None of them had been to Iowa before joining the Des Moines staff of the women’s professional golf event, as far as marketing and sales …
Read MoreVilsack to keynote Farm Bureau session Dec. 7
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will give the keynote address at the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting at Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center in Des Moines. Vilsack will speak at about 8:30 a.m., …
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