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A Closer Look: Nick Valdez

Nick Valdez has doused fires and helped with the master planning of a historic neighborhood. These days, he is busy preparing to help Drake University shepherd a development project along University Avenue. To say his …

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Young ambition

So when my boss, who is younger than my oldest child, tells me that I’m to write the cover story for our August focus issue on young professionals, I’m up for it. (Journalists are, after …

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Finding conservation on the web

Chris Draper has come up with an easy way for developers to get points toward LEED certification for their buildings ­— by leasing a small patch of woodland from a person they’ve never met, for …

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The cost of conservation

When the Nature Conservancy in Iowa asked donors for $9 million in 2003, the five-year campaign ended up raising double that amount. 

Now, the nonprofit organization — one of the key players in habitat and …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the August 12 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the August 12 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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The Insider Notebook: August 12 Issue

See all of this week’s Business Record Insider Notebook items. Click here>>>…

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Business Record 8-12-16

Young ambition
Your guide to managing young professionals.

Focus: Young Professionals

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Whatever happened to the automated grocery kiosk planned for Des Moines’ central city?

Whatever happened to the project we heard about last summer to install a robotic grocery kiosk in Des Moines?   As organizers learned, the devil often is in the details, even with good ideas. 


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NOTEBOOK: Tollakson steps into Windsor Heights sidewalk controversy, by chance

When Hubbell Realty CEO Rick Tollakson visited the Windsor Heights City Council to ask for support for a feasibility study on Central Iowa dam removal and river recreation improvements, he quickly figured out the audience …

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NOTEBOOK: Feds scrap annual dead zone measurement

Every year, environmentalists and agricultural leaders wait for the declaration of how big the so-called dead zone is in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmentalists use this information to call for greater action on reducing crop…