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Measuring the manufacturing skills gap in Iowa

Dee Zee Inc. can’t find enough production workers to fill its increasingly skilled positions, and the gap is growing. 

The Des Moines manufacturing company, which has more than tripled its workforce in the past seven …

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A Closer Look: Randy Reichardt

Some people bicycle to work. 

For four years, Randy Reichardt’s work was bicycling.

Reichardt wasn’t officially a professional bicyclist, but he was in Boulder, Colo., for four years competing in USA Cycling events and collecting …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the June 10 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the June 10 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: June 10 Issue

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

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Business Record 6-10-16

Measuring the manufacturing skills gap in Iowa
Employers try different solutions; will they work?

Focus: Manufacturing & Trade

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Consultant works on fund to aid Syrian refugees

While many Iowa philanthropists strive to improve conditions locally, regionally or even nationally, a visiting scholar in Des Moines is taking a decidedly global approach.


Kavilash Chawla, who serves on the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s…
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NOTEBOOK: For Mandelbaums, a tower and a simple intersection

Justin Mandelbaum was back before the city of Des Moines Urban Design Review Board this week to provide an update on an $106 million, 32-story mixed-use tower called The Fifth that would be built where …

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NOTEBOOK: Bradley Burt generates smiles to spare in Waukee

Bradley Burt must be one happy guy. I don’t know him well, but the several times I’ve talked to him I put down the telephone with a smile on my face. He exudes good cheer. …

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Michigan environmentalist offers lessons from Flint

Chris Kolb was in the middle of the Flint water crisis. A former Democratic state lawmaker who now is president of the nonprofit Michigan Environmental Council, he co-chaired the task force that tried to figure…
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NOTEBOOK: Reader share – AARP video on #disruptaging

After attending our June 1 Power Breakfast titled “The Silver Tsunami,” Karl David Wilt, a partner at B2B CFO, shared that the day’s conversation on the challenges and opportunities of an aging workforce had jogged …