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NOTEBOOK: A hill of beans likely to depress market

While Successful Farming was reporting this year’s soybean crop will likely set a record — and bring the lowest season-average price in 12 years — Kirk Leeds was sitting in his office at the Iowa Soybean Association …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Iowa is getting hotter, bringing more frequent and intense storms

It’s going to be pretty hot today (see that KCCI weather forecast below), and that will likely be a topic of conversation around your offices. It turns out we have more to say about it.…
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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the August 10th Issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the July 27 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …

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NOTEBOOK: Coping with two tornadoes in one decade

Several Central Iowa cities were hit by tornadoes July 19, Marshalltown among them. Pam Delagardelle, president and CEO of UnityPoint Health-Waterloo, wrote this note to the community about the experience:


Not again, I thought to …

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NOTEBOOK: The demise of civility

The man who brought you Character Counts in an effort to spread proper discourse across our land says civility has sunk to the lowest level he’s seen in his 75 years, and it’s still falling.…

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NOTEBOOK: She works in health care; he works in metal

When I recently interviewed Linda Goodwin about her new role as Mercy’s chief operating officer/chief nursing officer, I found out that her husband, Larry Goodwin, has had a hand in some well-known sculptures around the …

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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.

Cownie and Market District
Businessman Jim Cownie has a backup plan for the site of a scrap metal …

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New York man with Des Moines ties runs $156M company

Business Record columnist Dave Elbert gave us a bit of an update on his son, Craig, who is an entrepreneur based in New York City with his roots in Dartmouth College, the Wharton School and …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Business travelers flock to Airbnb

A lot of business travelers have discovered they end up getting homier accommodations cheaper if they book lodging through Airbnb or a similar service. Now business travelers are making that a bigger play, and they …

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NOTEBOOK: Durham: String of new records in business filings evidence that Iowa is on right track

Iowa’s economic development director said the state’s latest record for annual business filings isn’t a surprise and shows the state’s economic power.

Debi Durham, director of the Iowa Economic Development Authority, responded to a question …