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NOTEBOOK: Oakridge Neighborhood students debut “Success is My Protest” video

 

Students from Oakridge Neighborhood in Des Moines want you to hear their voice. They want you to hear their message.

To do that, they produced a music video that recently went live on YouTube. Their message …

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‘Not your basic vegan’

Editor’s note: The Business Record is proud to introduce Beyond the Bottom Line – a monthly series focused on small business owners and leaders who are rooted in passion and purpose. This initiative came about …

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Two new interstate interchanges could help accelerate development in Urbandale

In the past three years, about 30 new developments have occurred in the Urban Loop, a roughly four-square-mile area surrounding Interstate Highway 35-80 between Merle Hay and Hickman roads in Urbandale.

With the recent opening …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Getting serious about diversity: Enough already with the business case

As diversity issues within business have become paramount while movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter have swept the country, underrepresented people have brought to light the need to not just be represented, but to …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Editorial from Sarasota newspaper points to inadequacies in long-term care system

The John A. Hartford Foundation reprinted an editorial from my hometown newspaper, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, about how the pandemic is shining a light on the inadequacies in the current way that elder care is funded …

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Business Record 10-23-20

Marketing in uncertainty

Focus: Banking, Finance and Investments

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Uncertainty, shifting focuses the norm for theaters as pandemic persists

Seven months after they were shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, venues such as Des Moines Performing Arts and Hoyt Sherman Place remain closed for live performances, resulting in cost-cutting measures and temporary shifts …

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Closer Look: Jason Redd

Jason Redd prides himself in knowing about everything that goes on at the Hy-Vee Food Store on Fleur Drive in Des Moines..

The 42-year-old has worked there almost continuously since he was 14.

But Redd …

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Marketing in uncertainty

When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Iowa in March, marketing teams described trying to contact frazzled businesses who were focused on maintaining operations, not on marketing messages. 

Business closures in March were just the start …

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New uses planned for East Village building that survived era of razing structures considered eyesores

Over several decades, Des Moines city planners and private developers cleared an area between the Iowa Capitol and the Des Moines River of buildings thought to be eyesores or in the way of development.

In …