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Recovery going into extra innings


Commerce Bank chief economist Scott Colbert says you can’t miss the signs of a slowing economy, but that doesn’t mean the nation’s second-longest recovery — and sure to become its longest — is backing its …

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California firm buys West Des Moines shopping center for $51.2M

Whole Foods Grocery is one of the tenants for the Water Tower Shopping Center that was sold in May to a California real estate management firm. Photo by Polk County assessor

The West Des Moines shopping…
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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the June 7 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the June 7 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: Ambassador: Iowa’s trade with Indonesia growing

When Indonesian Ambassador to the United States Mahendra Siregar visited the downtown Embassy Club on May 6, he spoke in an interview about the future of trade with Iowa, already approaching $100 million. Iowa is …

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NOTEBOOK: A new conference lunch service?

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At the Monetery Tech Summit May 21, organizers promoted lunch to a memorable, stand-alone session. Dwolla organizers loaded five …

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NOTEBOOK: Astronomer captures video of SpaceX’s 60 Starlink satellites in the sky

If there is any place you might half-expect an alien encounter while camping, the South Dakota Badlands might be on the list. Yet, my skeptical partners and I were floored when we looked up from …

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NOTEBOOK: Voss dishes on trails, benefit golf/run, parks anniversary

Carl Voss, my one-time colleague at the Des Moines Register way back when, really gets around town as a volunteer. I’ve seen him at events supporting trails (on water and land), the Lauridsen Skatepark, and …

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A Closer Look: Susan Bunz

Shortly after Susan Bunz was laid off in 2014 from DuPont Pioneer, she got a call from Jerry Armstrong, board chair of Meals from the Heartland, encouraging her to join the nonprofit with which she …

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Building Iowa’s robotics workforce

When robotics and electronics engineering students at Des Moines Area Community College are called on by recruiters, they’re often hearing from folks who graduated from a similar two-year program who are now pulling in six-figure …

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The Elbert Files: O. Kay Henderson

O. Kay Henderson is something of a throwback. 

Not since the Des Moines Register’s legendary George Mills covered the Iowa Statehouse in the 1950s and ’60s has a reporter covering Iowa’s political and economic storms …