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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Data in the dark: How big tech secretly secured $800M in tax breaks for data centers

This Forbes article takes a critical look at how local governments continue to dangle hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks to sell companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft on building server farms in their communities. …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Brookings report: Beyond ‘food deserts’

For more than a year, Business Publications Corp. has promoted a campaign focused on food insecurity called Iowa Stops Hunger. The goal of the campaign is to bring attention to the plight of those in our …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: The Taliban – and fear – sweep Afghanistan

Yesterday in one of the newsletters I subscribe to from National Geographic, the publication’s senior executive editor, Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, explained the events happening in Afghanistan. Lakshmanan was in the first convoy of reporters to reach …

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NOTEBOOK: Iowa State Fair returns, bringing new payment options with it

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Guest opinion: DEI and the human workforce: The queer/straight equation

Submitted by Steve Petersen, founder, Bursting Through

Bursting Through is the storytelling movement for the queer/straight relationship. It is also a for-profit business founded by a queer man who had a very successful 27-year corporate …

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Guest opinion: One young professional perspective on return-to-office and hybrid workplaces

Submitted by Gregory Lin

Confused. Relieved. Micro-managed. Excited. Anxious. Indifferent. Ready. These are descriptors young professionals provided when I asked how they feel about returning to the office. 

In a recent survey of over 3,600 …

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NOTEBOOK: Q&A with Lego sculptor, ISU alum Chris Ihle

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On Leadership: Reflections on leading through disruption

The last year and a half has been filled with constant disruption, from the ever-evolving pandemic, economic volatility and amplification of racial equity issues to the election — and for those of us in Iowa, …

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Closer Look: Jennifer Brown

Central Iowa is a familiar place to Jennifer Brown, a Wisconsin native who recently was tapped to be the city of Waukee’s economic development coordinator.

Brown, a graduate of Central College in Pella, worked for …

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Cheltzie Miller-Bailey on challenging the idea of professionalism, and what prioritizing your own well-being looks like

Cheltzie Miller-Bailey had big dreams when she was young – she would have her doctorate by age 30 and would become a CEO someday. 


Growing up in West Des Moines’ Valley Junction neighborhood in a …