The Elbert Files: Absentee voting 42 years ago

Two years ago, an estimated 50 million U.S. citizens cast absentee ballots, voted early or used other nontraditional voting methods, according to the Pew Research Center. That’s more than one-third of the 130 million votes …

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Leaving his mark

It would be easy to say that copyright and entertainment lawyer Brandon Clark is just another son-of-a-music-publisher based in Des Moines who nearly hit it big with his own band and has had quite a …

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A Closer Look: Jean Shelton

Jean Shelton began work as executive director and CEO of On With Life in November 2017, succeeding Julie Fidler Dixon on her retirement. Shelton was most recently CEO of Iowa Digestive Disease Center, and previously …

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State conservation cost share applications open

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship has opened this year’s signup for cost share funds for projects aimed at reducing fertilizer runoff on crop fields. The cost share varies depending on whether the …

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World Food Prize announces 2018 theme

Today at the 10th World Potato Congress in Cusco, Peru, Ambassador Kenneth Quinn announced the theme of the 2018 Norman Borlaug International Symposium — “Rise to the Challenge.” In making the theme announcement, the World …

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Keller named chief medical officer of Mercy

Charles Keller is the new chief medical officer of Mercy Medical Center, a position he has held on an interim basis since October, Mercy announced in a news release today. He will oversee clinical operations …

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NOTEBOOK: In case you missed it …

In case you missed it…
A brief look back at news from the past week on BusinessRecord.com

Water trails = $100M-plus
The engineering report finds that the area’s water trails, including an adventure park downtown, …

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