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McLellan: Amplifying your audience

In last week’s column, we identified the difference between a celebrity influencer and someone who has influence with the audience you care about. This is the marketing equivalent of having a very connected and highly …

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The Elbert Files: No more downtown movies

The era of downtown movie theaters is over.


Problems associated with the stalled high-rise project at Fifth Avenue and Walnut Street mark the end of long-standing efforts to return movie theaters to downtown Des Moines. …

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NOTEBOOK: Jury trial in Wellmark discrimination lawsuit set for March — 2023

Plaintiffs in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed in May 2020 against Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield will have to wait two more years for a jury trial in that case to begin.

 

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NOTEBOOK: Drake’s Griff II gets limited-edition bobblehead

Bulldogs are known for being lazy but fierce, loving and protective, and having an insatiable appetite for both food and life.

But how about having their own bobblehead?

When I learned that Griff II, Drake …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: An animated flying cat with a Pop-Tart body sold for nearly $600,000

Three years ago when I joined the Business Record, I somehow found myself explaining to my new co-workers what Nyan Cat is. Despite it being a relatively simple concept — an animated flying cat with …

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NOTEBOOK: Jury trial in Wellmark discrimination lawsuit set for March — 2023

Plaintiffs in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed in May 2020 against Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield will have to wait two more years for a jury trial in that case to begin.

The case, …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Leadership during the new normal: Inspiring others

President John F. Kennedy, while visiting NASA in the 1960s, reportedly asked a janitor at the facility: “What do you do here?” The employee replied: “I’m helping to put a man on the moon.” Every …

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Exemplar Care launches 24/7 urgent care clinic

A West Des Moines physician who is beginning his third year operating a direct primary care practice has now launched a 24-hour urgent care/extended care clinic as an additional service for his members, but the …

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Clive Behavioral Health opens — with limited initial capacity

Central Iowans seeking inpatient or outpatient behavioral health care for themselves or a family member now have another option with the opening of Clive Behavioral Health.


The new 83,000-square-foot hospital, which officially opened Feb. 22, …

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Iowa’s health care system stretched — but not broken — by pandemic

The need to rapidly respond to the pandemic crisis gave Iowa health care providers unprecedented permission to do things differently over the past year — and will greatly influence decisions about changes to the health …