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NOTEBOOK: OK, who’s got the remote for the spaceship?

Remember Voyager I? 

Launched by NASA back in 1977, it sailed past Jupiter and Saturn before becoming the first man-made object to leave the solar system. (And if you’re a Trekkie, you may also recall …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the June 15 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the June 15 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: Lehman hangs at Jordan Creek, wins Principal Classic

The Principal Charity Classic’s fight with bad weather sent Tom Lehman and his daughter to Jordan Creek Town Center, reported former Des Moines Register golf writer Rick Brown, who writes for the tournament.

Brown wrote …

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NOTEBOOK: Coffee news

Even as a rare journalist who doesn’t drink coffee, I’ve noticed that there has been quite a buzz about the stuff the past couple of days. Starbucks, which for many Business Record members is a …

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NOTEBOOK: When depression and entrepreneurship collide

Losing two powerful voices within a week — legendary designer and founder Kate Spade and advocate, storyteller and chef Anthony Bourdain — left our culture grappling, once again, with how we acknowledge and treat depression. …

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NOTEBOOK: Deere sets 2022 sustainability goals


We forgot to highlight World Environment Day on Tuesday, but that is OK. I’m not that big on Earth Day and the like just in the sense that that these “special days” seem like Hallmark…
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NOTEBOOK: In 1,000 feet, turn right at the … ‘insert paying business here’

I was reminiscing recently with a college journalist about how I used to have to print off my directions from MapQuest before heading out to an interview. Naturally, I was promptly reminded by a wiser, …

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NOTEBOOK: Sukup’s perks for workers include weeklong Hawaii trips

Sukup Manufacturing Co. reported a bit recently on the perks of working at the company — not a bad idea since is a tight workforce.

Sukup workers get a free turkey for Thanksgiving, free single …

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NOTEBOOK: Gone with the wind

MidAmerican Energy exec Kathryn Kunert was just wrapping up a four-speaker news conference about a major renewable energy milestone at the utility when her speech blew off the lectern. “That is why we build wind” …

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NOTEBOOK: ‘I got you a Ferrari’

Suzie Glazer Burt was recalling the other day how her father, then Drake University Board of Trustees Chairman Edward Glazer, hired Mick Ferrari as president of Drake University, then told her mother, “I just got …