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Business Record 10-25-19

Connecting workers with disabilities to local employers

Focus: Business of Branding

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By BPC Staff | Oct 23, 2019

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 …

By BPC Staff | Oct 23, 2019

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 …

By KATE HAYDEN | Oct 23, 2019

NOTEBOOK: Processing trauma even while helping others through it

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, a group of trauma experts went to New Orleans to help residents process and cope with what they were going through. One emergency room doctor told the leaders that the hospital …

By EMILY BARSKE | Oct 23, 2019

A federal case for STEM

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 …

By PERRY BEEMAN | Oct 23, 2019

The Big Question: Personal Brand vs. Corporate Brand

Business professionals have an unprecedented ability to tell their personal stories and develop their own personal brands online. We’ve all heard or read news articles, however, about how a careless tweet or post can affect …

By JOE GARDYASZ | Oct 23, 2019

Developer, city officials negotiating changes to agreement for downtown project

Developer Justin Mandelbaum and Des Moines city officials are negotiating an amendment to a development agreement for his $200 million downtown project that would extend to 2020 the beginning of construction on a tower and …

By KATHY A. BOLTEN | Oct 23, 2019

Connecting workers with disabilities to local employers

For about the past year, Emma Goff has worked at Raygun, performing tasks such as stuffing mailers, restocking inventory and even waxing the T-shirt racks — a retailer trick that keeps the metal hangers quiet …

By JOE GARDYASZ | Oct 23, 2019

NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Reality TV, student debt come together in Kutcher production

I read in Monday’s Wall Street Journal that Iowa native Ashton Kutcher will be rolling out a new reality television show this week, “Going for Broke,” which will focus on helping contestants find ways to reduce their …

By JOE GARDYASZ | Oct 22, 2019