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The Insider Notebook

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NOTEBOOK: In case you missed it…

In case you missed it…
A brief look back at news from the past week on BusinessRecord.com.

Telligen talks
There was news of a lawsuit involving a West Des Moines nonprofit’s ESOP, so we talked …
By BPC Staff | Oct 16, 2018
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Tickets still available for mental health film tonight

A few months back we told you about a local woman striving to bring awareness to mental health through a movie showing. Kristin Sauter has been in the Des Moines area for about a year…
By SUZANNE BEHNKE | Oct 16, 2018
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INSIDER NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Mapping nearly every building in the U.S.

The New York Times has used Microsoft data to map nearly every building in the country. It’s interactive, so you can search for a specific address. But the map shows only footprints, rather than a satellite…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Oct 15, 2018
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INSIDER NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: And now … snow farming

There’s a lot of farming news out there today. You’ll see elsewhere in this daily that the soybean farmers in Iowa are losing bushels to flooding. Here you can read about the latest hurricane’s devastation at farms…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Oct 12, 2018
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INSIDER NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Here are all the reasons for the Dow plunge


Newsroom conversation Wednesday afternoon turned to the Dow sliding … and how it kept sliding until it ended with an 800-plus-point drop. USA Today takes a quick look at some of the reasons for the fall, if…
By SUZANNE BEHNKE | Oct 11, 2018
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INSIDER NOTEBOOK — One Good Read: U.S. passports fall from No. 1

Not too many years ago, having a U.S. passport could get you into more countries without a visa than any other nation’s documents. Not so anymore. CNN reports that Japan now has the most powerful passport on the…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Oct 10, 2018
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NOTEBOOK: Treasuries: Short- vs. long-term & the inverted yield curve

Is the economy headed down? Well, maybe, if you believe in the inverted yield curve.

The yield curve charts the difference between the interest rate paid on short-term Treasury notes and long-term Treasury bonds. Long-term …
By STEVE DINNEN | Oct 9, 2018
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NOTEBOOK: Let’s cover this topic — Greater D.M. -tree canopy

While perusing news releases recently, one on trees caught my eye. I contacted Leslie Berckes, program development and innovation director for Trees Forever. She provided some information and city-by-city comparisons on tree canopy, which she …
By SUZANNE BEHNKE | Oct 9, 2018
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NOTEBOOK: Grinnell Prize winner: It’s not just about reducing your carbon footprint

Melanie Marcel, this year’s winner of the $100,000 Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize, runs SoScience in Paris and spends her days trying to match companies with nongovernmental organizations and others who are trying …
By PERRY BEEMAN | Oct 9, 2018
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NOTEBOOK: Momboss at Principal

Working Mother magazine released its list of 100 Best Companies recently. It included a lot of large employers; some have Iowa operations, such as Bank of America, Deloitte and RSM, among others.

The list also …
By SUZANNE BEHNKE | Oct 9, 2018