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McLellan: Are you forgetting xennials?

For the past several years, the world has been obsessed with the millennials. Employers grouse about them, marketers try to understand them, and Gen X parents hope their kids don’t become the stereotype.

The general …

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Guest opinion: Eat local, help business

As a farmer, I’m constantly talking with my customers about the importance of eating locally, so here are my top five reasons why it is important to eat food grown and raised locally.

Reason: Locally …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the June 1 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the May 4 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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Found in translation

When Darcy Lopez started her interpreting and translation business six years ago, she and another interpreter, along with an office manager, were the only staff.  

Today, her Windsor Heights-based company, Voices LLC, employs about 40 …

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NOTEBOOK: Deeper dive into the Y pool: Kids’ competitive swimming will grow

Here’s an aquatic trivia question: How long does it take to “flip” the lane markers at the Wellmark YMCA’s Olympic-size pool from a 19-lane, 25-yard “short” format to an eight-lane, 50-meter “long” pool? With some …

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NOTEBOOK: In the bag

The Metro Waste Authority staged a good-natured competition among local cities to see which one could collect the most plastic grocery bags. Residents were encouraged to trade the bags for a reusable tote.
 
We …

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NOTEBOOK: How prevalent are female CEOs at Iowa hospitals?

We recently reported news from UnityPoint Health-Des Moines about Jennifer Havens being named the next CEO for UnityPoint Health-Grinnell Regional Medical Center. Since this was the first female CEO I could recall being appointed at …

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The Elbert Files: Absentee voting 42 years ago

Two years ago, an estimated 50 million U.S. citizens cast absentee ballots, voted early or used other nontraditional voting methods, according to the Pew Research Center. That’s more than one-third of the 130 million votes …

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Butler Mansion: A historic house designed with office users in mind

A concrete mansion that put Des Moines on the architectural map of American homes in the 1930s is for sale or lease after serving the better part of three decades as a grandiose office building …

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Leaving his mark

It would be easy to say that copyright and entertainment lawyer Brandon Clark is just another son-of-a-music-publisher based in Des Moines who nearly hit it big with his own band and has had quite a …