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Guest Opinion: Iowa’s business court innovating and improving business litigation

Many Iowa businesses have discovered that accessing civil justice through our courts is easier and more cost-efficient today thanks to the Iowa Business Court, an innovation of the Iowa Supreme Court Civil Justice Reform Task …

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Guest Opinion: The power of ‘us’

  BY TERRY HERNANDEZ | Executive director, Chrysalis Foundation   Being dependent has sometimes been viewed as a negative. We’re taught early in life to be “independent,” or “individual” — to have our own thoughts…
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Opinion: More than ever, women need role models

BY SUZANNE HECKENLAIBLE | Vice president of public affairs, Delta Dental of Iowa, and executive director, Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation


On Oct. 27, I had the distinct pleasure of joining hundreds of professional woman…
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The Elbert Files: Weitz book loaded with tales

Few people realize it now, but there was a strong connection between Prohibition and Camp Dodge, the military compound north of Des Moines that was built in 1917 to train World War I soldiers.

Des …

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Guest Opinion: Community leadership lessons from the Chicago Cubs

BY JESSICA MALDONADO | Public policy manager, PolicyWorks LLC
As a lifelong Cubs fan, watching the Cubs win the World Series in the most dramatic fashion brought a range of emotions. With the happiness also…
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The Elbert Files: Things we’ve never seen before

With Donald Trump, everything is the best or the worst, the most amazing or an absolute disaster. There is no gray, no shading, no subtleties. For much of the past year, the Republican candidate for …

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Leaders Survey 2016

For our annual Business Record Leaders Survey, we surveyed the Business Record audience on 16 business issues in order to capture the pulse of our readers.

Below we have the results of all the questions …

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Guest Opinion: How to make strong choices

BY CHRISTI HEGSTAD | President, MAP Professional Development Inc.    Do you ever come home from a long day, hear someone ask you what’s for dinner, and feel like you might explode from the pressure of…
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The Elbert Files: Unrealistic expectations

One of the many fallacies of the 2016 election is a belief that politicians can significantly increase the growth rate of the U.S. economy. 

To be sure, the current slowdown is one of the most …

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Guest Opinion: A lesson from nonprofits about women in leadership

BY MICHELLE BOOK | President and CEO, Food Bank of Iowa
It is an exciting time to be a woman. History is being made, and we are all a part of it. Women are breaking…