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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the December 14th issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the December 14 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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Business Record 12-14-18

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Newsmaker Q&A: Andy Flynn

At the end of this year, Andy Flynn will retire from Flynn Wright following more than 25 years with the Des Moines marketing and communications firm founded by his father in 1984. Flynn, who started …

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Hot property

FEH Design President Denny Sharp wondered whether buying the old fish restaurant building in Des Moines’ East Village was too much of a financial risk. 

FEH, an architecture, engineering and interior design firm, has been …

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Closer Look: John Shrader

John Shrader’s pivot from public school principal to corporate sales executive began in 2000 when a family friend, Frank Russell, recruited him to become the first regional sales manager for his training/education software company, GeoLearning …

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McLellan: 2019 planning deconstructed

Big, small, for profit or not for profit — every organization needs a marketing plan, and that marketing plan requires a refresh every year. The channels, audience expectations and possibilities are changing faster than we …

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Elbert Files: A great escape from reality

Joe LeValley has written a compelling crime novel, “Burying the Lede,” about a small-town Iowa newspaper reporter named Tony Harrington, who works for the Town Crier in fictitious Orney, Iowa.

For many journalists the desire …

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Introducing Greater

How Greater evolved

Earlier this year, we surveyed our audience and invited readers to share their ideas on how to make Des Moines greater in the next 35 years. The response was overwhelming. In the …

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NOTEBOOK: Ramsey Lewis’ last concert: Des Moines

Here’s another little tale from a visit with Hoyt Sherman Place Executive Director Robert Warren.

Grammy-winning jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis’ Sept. 28 concert at Hoyt Sherman proved to be his last. 

“Ramsey was very, very …

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NOTEBOOK: With farmland investment, you can star in ‘Green Acres’

Iowa is teeming with farmland. And every year, by dint of the retirement or death of a property owner, much of it is for sale. So is it now your time to turn a plow?…