Rain stalls Iowa’s harvest

Des Moines Register: Rain has slowed the harvest across the state in recent days. National Weather Service data for Des Moines showed that Central Iowa on Wednesday matched the October rainfall record of 7.29 inches, set …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the Oct. 25 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the Oct. 25 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 …

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NOTEBOOK: A friend of Des Moines’ flag

The great podcaster Roman Mars will always be an audio legend for two reasons: 

Of course, his voice — Roman Mars has an inarguably great podcasting voice on “99% Invisible,” which explores the great and …

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A federal case for STEM

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Jeff Weld, Iowa’s guru on all things STEM, spent a year in Washington, D.C. working on a project that in many ways gave him a chance to spread the word on successful approaches in Iowa …

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McLellan: How neighborly is your marketing?

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“Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” hit the airwaves in 1968, and 912 episodes later its final episode aired in 2001. In an era of children’s programming that was focused on reading, writing and arithmetic, Mr. Rogers focused …

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