Archive for April 2020
NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Surviving social isolation for your personality type
If you’re anything like me, you love personality tests. Yes, I subscribe to multiple newsletters specific to my personality. And yes, it is a highlight of my week. And right now, getting through this pandemic …
Read MoreBeyond the donation door
Stuff. All of us have it, and most of us get rid of it at one point or another.
In today’s throwaway society, the life cycles of apparel, electronic goods and household items are fairly …
Read MoreLongtime Des Moines construction firm plans move into downtown office building
The Weitz Co., an architectural, engineering and construction firm with deep roots in Des Moines, is relocating its corporate headquarters and other company divisions to a downtown office building that will soon undergo a $23.3 …
Read MoreMcLellan: I can’t hear you
If you have children or an obstinate dog, you know what it feels like to be speaking perfectly clear and simple English, and yet it’s like you are alone in the room. The dog is …
Read MoreThe Elbert Files: D.M. and Lindbergh
Des Moines plays an interesting, if distortive, role in “The Plot Against America,” the current HBO miniseries based on Philip Roth’s 2004 novel of the same name.
The book and the miniseries tell an imagined …
Read MoreBusiness Record 4-10-20
‘Adapt and survive’
Iowa’s 6,200-plus restaurants are dealing with adversity amid steep revenue declines and unemployment due to state-enforced closure
Focus: Green Sustainability
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Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Who’s in the April 10 issue?
Here’s a list of local people in the April 10 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 MoreDubuque, Iowa DNR reach ‘first-of-its-kind’ water quality agreement
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa municipalities and local farmers now have a road map for teaming up to address water quality, under an agreement establishing the first use of the state’s Nutrient Reduction Exchange. The Dubuque City …
Read More‘Adapt & Survive’
By early March, indicators were mounting that the unthinkable would happen.
People were told not to gather in groups of 50, then 10 or more. Schools closed as efforts grew to stave off a deadly …
A Closer Look: Dan Pitcher
Dan Pitcher became CEO and director of FBL Financial Group on Jan. 1, succeeding Jim Brannen, who retired in early 2020. Pitcher, who had been chief operating officer for property casualty companies with FBL since …
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