The Insider Notebook

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Tony Paustian has been working for 10 years to book movie stars, astronauts, musicians and others on a “shoestring budget” to come to West Des Moines once a year to inspire students and others at …