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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Why men thought women weren’t made to vote

Here’s an interesting read from the Atlantic that provides an entertaining look at how even some of the most educated minds a little over 100 years ago judged women as mentally and physically incapable of voting. The …

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Hotel Fort Des Moines awarded $16.2 million in tax credits

The 102-year-old Hotel Fort Des Moines this week was award $16.2 million in historic preservation tax credits by the Iowa Economic Development Authority.

The downtown hotel, located at 1000 Walnut St., received more than half …

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Need more parking for customers? Buy a parcel, build a lot

Every week, more than 6,000 vehicles vie for free two-hour parking in the 145-space lot adjacent to the multi-tenant commercial building at 300 Martin Luther King Parkway, owned by one of entrepreneur Rich Eychaner’s companies.…

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Business Record 7-12-19

The art of the new festival


Focus: Technology

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The art of the new festival

Back in 2008, on the first night of the first 80/35 Music Festival, Des Moines Music Coalition cofounder Justin Schoen was learning about Twitter. 

“There wasn’t near the kind of reach that there is now,” …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: UI professor: Here’s how the legal system squeezed out alternatives to the automobile

University of Iowa College of Law Associate Professor Gregory H. Shill wrote an interesting piece for The Atlantic that looks at how lawmakers essentially made America car-dependant by law. Here’s a short excerpt from his piece, which …

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Printable possibilities

What would you have done in college with a machine that could print nearly anything you wanted?

University of Iowa students Cody Wilson and Dylan Ray started the 2018-19 school year with just that question. …

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How will technology and AI affect Iowa’s retail industry?

A visit to a grocery store or big-box retailer can already seem like a futuristic endeavor, particularly for those who remember the days when fast-fingered clerks made mechanical cash registers hum as they swiftly keyed …

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NOTEBOOK – Who’s in the July 12 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the July 5 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 – Sorensen: Bankers’ association doesn’t see any way to oppose GreenState acquisition

Iowa Bankers Association President and CEO John Sorensen issued a statement last week in response to an announcement that the state’s largest credit union, the former University of Iowa Community Credit Union — was buying …