Archive for June 2019
EPA exempts livestock operations from air monitoring
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has exempted farms from reporting air emissions related to animal wastes under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. Industry representatives had called the rule burdensome. “This final rule provides …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Who’s in the June 7 issue?
Here’s a list of local people in the June 7 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Ambassador: Iowa’s trade with Indonesia growing
When Indonesian Ambassador to the United States Mahendra Siregar visited the downtown Embassy Club on May 6, he spoke in an interview about the future of trade with Iowa, already approaching $100 million. Iowa is …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: A new conference lunch service?
At the Monetery Tech Summit May 21, organizers promoted lunch to a memorable, stand-alone session. Dwolla organizers loaded five …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Astronomer captures video of SpaceX’s 60 Starlink satellites in the sky
If there is any place you might half-expect an alien encounter while camping, the South Dakota Badlands might be on the list. Yet, my skeptical partners and I were floored when we looked up from …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Voss dishes on trails, benefit golf/run, parks anniversary
Carl Voss, my one-time colleague at the Des Moines Register way back when, really gets around town as a volunteer. I’ve seen him at events supporting trails (on water and land), the Lauridsen Skatepark, and …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Susan Bunz
Shortly after Susan Bunz was laid off in 2014 from DuPont Pioneer, she got a call from Jerry Armstrong, board chair of Meals from the Heartland, encouraging her to join the nonprofit with which she …
Read MoreBuilding Iowa’s robotics workforce
When robotics and electronics engineering students at Des Moines Area Community College are called on by recruiters, they’re often hearing from folks who graduated from a similar two-year program who are now pulling in six-figure …
Read MoreThe Elbert Files: O. Kay Henderson
O. Kay Henderson is something of a throwback.
Not since the Des Moines Register’s legendary George Mills covered the Iowa Statehouse in the 1950s and ’60s has a reporter covering Iowa’s political and economic storms …
Read MoreMcLellan: How to avoid the summer slowdown
June. How did we get here already?
We all know that we lose about three weeks of productivity from around Dec. 15 until the 10th of January or so. I call it the hibernation period. …
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