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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Amazon Day shipping option comes to Prime customers

Amazon may be coming to my rescue, sort of. I, like plenty of others in the U.S., have had packages stolen off my porch. Now it looks like Amazon might help curb those porch thefts …

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Business Record 3-1-19

In the business of helping

Focus: Building & Construction

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the March 1 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the March 1 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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In the business of helping

There was a time when Jackie Johansen would run off to Texas to visit her grandmother, typically after life had delivered a rough blow.

As likely as not, her grandmother would say, “Where are you …

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Newsmaker Q&A: Mark Nook

Mark Nook has led the University of Northern Iowa as its 11th president for the past two years. I caught up with Nook recently while he was in Des Moines to visit with state lawmakers …

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Guest Opinion: Fear of mentoring

There are a lot of things happening every day to increase our fear of something bad happening to us. Some are very real issues while others can be highly questionable. For example, some people fear …

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The Elbert Files: Organic farming facts

Don Wiviott has a unique perspective on agriculture that could help Iowa farmers and the planet. 

That might seem strange since most of his life experiences have little to do with agriculture.

He grew up …

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McLellan: The gender fluidity trend

I will admit right off the bat that gender fluidity is a topic that can cause a heated debate far beyond marketing. I don’t profess to have expertise in the psychological or sociological truths of …

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NOTEBOOK: An unconventional crop

When I think of eating bugs, I think back to Disney’s “Lion King”: “Slimy, yet satisfying,” Pumbaa the warthog advises a young Simba. 

More than 80 percent of the world eats thousands of species of …

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NOTEBOOK: What happens on the farm stays on the farm?

Ever since our Economic Forecast event on Jan. 31, I’ve been asking, poking around and reading about about the health of the ag economy. At the event, I asked a question that stemmed back to …