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The Insider Notebook

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NOTEBOOK: Airport 101

Kevin Foley, Des Moines International Airport’s general manager and executive director, briefed reporters last week on basic airport operations. 

The tour included a behind-the-scenes look at a cramped but reworked baggage screening area that would …

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NOTEBOOK: Some of you are lousy at taking lunch

If your shop is anything like Business Publications Corp., you probably see a variety of approaches to the lunch hour. We encourage everyone to take a break, and some do — to have lunch with …

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Timms on “new power”

Henry Timms visits Greater Des Moines for the first time Friday to tell us about the important force behind the likes of “GivingTuesday, which he founded, and the likes of Uber and Airbnb.

He is…
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NOTEBOOK: A business wants to stay downtown, but there are ‘issues’

Sherwin Williams paint company is in the unenviable position of being stuck between the past and visions of the future for an area undergoing rejuvenation south of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway at Southwest Fifth …

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NOTEBOOK: Thinking of workplace safety, self-defense

Heartbreaking cases of young women being attacked have been in the headlines — nationally and, unfortunately, locally.

The tragic news of the Iowa State University golfer being killed this week and the disappearance and death …

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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.

Education disparities
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach wants to play a bigger role in addressing education disparities. …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: The broad problem with narrow gene studies

Around 16 percent of all human genes were identified by 1991. Yet 24 years later, those genes were still the subjects of about half of all genetic research published in 2015, the New York Times reports. …

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Iowa redistricting feature in D.C. panel

Last September, I interviewed my former Des Moines Register colleague David Yepsen for a Closer Look article after he returned to run the “Iowa Press” show on Iowa Public Television. 

Yepsen mentioned in the interview that Iowa …

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Iowa redistricting feature in D.C. panel

Last September, I interviewed my former Des Moines Register colleague David Yepsen for a Closer Look article after he returned to run the “Iowa Press” show on Iowa Public Television. 

Yepsen mentioned in the interview that Iowa …

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Iowa redistricting feature in D.C. panel

Last September, I interviewed my former Des Moines Register colleague David Yepsen for a Closer Look article after he returned to run the “Iowa Press” show on Iowa Public Television. 

Yepsen mentioned in the interview that Iowa …