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Joe Rosenfield was a rare bird.
George Drake explains just how unusual the Des Moines businessman was in a new biography, “Mentor: Life and Legacy of Joe Rosenfield.”
Rosenfield is remembered today as the …
Iowa’s reputation as an open-minded, nondiscriminatory state is under attack from Gov. Kim Reynolds and Republican lawmakers who would like to turn back the clock on gay marriage, reproductive rights and other gender-related issues.
If …
Des Moines City Councilwoman Linda Westergaard explained Monday why the public has not seen an image of the “eyesore” courthouse that federal officials want to build on the Des Moines River. I, along with the …
Des Moines publisher E.T. Meredith is not generally associated with politics, although he was twice considered as a candidate for U.S. president during the 1920s.
The founder of Better Homes and Gardens and Successful Farming …
The question facing many of the metro area’s best minds is how to continue the remarkable growth we’ve experienced in recent decades.
There are several ways to approach that question, but one essential is transportation. …
I awoke recently to the sound of workers pouring a new floor less than 30 yards from my 15th-floor hotel room in downtown Brooklyn. They were so close I could see individual pieces of gravel …
The current economic recovery will be 10 years old in June, tying the dot-com expansion from March 1991 to March 2001 for the longest period of consistent U.S. growth since the end of the 1930s’ …
The Iowa state Capitol is 1.6 miles from Meredith Corp.’s downtown campus.
I measured the distance recently to get a feel for how Des Moines has changed in the three decades since the Des Moines …
My longtime colleague Dan Piller makes a tongue-in-cheek argument that he put the idea in Fred Hoiberg’s head of coaching basketball at the University of Nebraska. He could be right.
Dan is a month older …
One of my favorite movie scenes is at the end of “All the President’s Men,” Robert Redford’s 1976 movie about how Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward covered the Watergate scandal.
Just before …
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