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NOTEBOOK: Iowa threads the needle on charity

IowaWORKS Centers and Proteus employees around the state arranged the donation of 3,617 long-sleeve shirts for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Employees from the IowaWORKS Center in Carroll donated 795 shirts, landing them in first place …

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NOTEBOOK: Only one-third of grads have good jobs waiting at graduation

Fewer than one-third of college students in the United States have a good job waiting for them upon graduation — a statistic that should make university presidents cringe.

Among bachelor degree graduates from 2002 to …

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NOTEBOOK: That’s the spirit

Clive’s own Copper Cross hybrid whiskey earned a silver medal in the American Distilling Institute spirits competition. Blended and bottled in the Des Moines suburb, Copper Cross is a hybrid blend of bourbon and rye. …

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NOTEBOOK: Smooth skating in D.M.

The dozens of people packed into a nook of Wells Fargo Arena overlooking the Des Moines River April 4 provided an interesting moment in Des Moines history. One of the take-home lessons: This city can …

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NOTEBOOK: 2 business owners organize kids’ business fair

Two local women who are small-business owners and moms are organizing a kids’ business fair April 29. We in the Business Record newsroom had not heard of this happening before.

The idea came close to …

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NOTEBOOK: Standing your ground on a snowmobile or ATV

Our state lawmakers and Gov. Kim Reynolds have changed state law to make sure everyone who owns or rents land in Iowa has the right to carry a loaded weapon — rifle or pistol, concealed …

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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

Social Club audio 101
The Des Moines Social Club offers a new class for East High students. Learn …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the April 13 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the April 13 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 – One Good Read: Is cutting entitlement programs key to fixing looming debt crisis?

Here’s an interesting opinion piece from Monday’s Washington Post that the folks at the Brookings Institute recommended to us. Five former chairs of the White House Council of Economic Advisors write that the looming federal fiscal crisis …

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NOTEBOOK: Brian Hemeseth rounds up his biggest failures at Accelerate DSM

Few people like talking about their failures the way Brian Hemesath does. “This is an extremely hard topic to talk about,” Hemesath acknowledged on Thursday, as a speaker at Accelerate DSM.

He took on the taboo …