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The Insider Notebook

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NOTEBOOK: ‘Love the noise and the action’

Kent Darr recently spoke to Matt Felling, the new general manager of the soon-to-open Hilton Des Moines Downtown, for a Closer Look article. But it left me hanging. It turns out he’s been in the …

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NOTEBOOK: KEY in Des Moines continues under Urbandale Chamber

An initiative that began in 2004 to help smaller colleges and universities in Greater Des Moines connect with employers still hosts regular meetings every other month with an aim toward addressing a perennial Iowa challenge: …

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NOTEBOOK: Even machines can have bias

Artificial intelligence is at the top of my mind right now. We have a Power Breakfast on the topic on Feb. 28, and much like when you get a new car and see it everywhere, …

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NOTEBOOK: Backers plan campaign home stretch for local option tax vote

There’s a lot of cautious optimism going on in the community task force backing the local option tax that voters will decide the fate of March 6. 

Community leaders Bob Mahaffey, Mary Chapman, Joe Gonzales …

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NOTEBOOK: Heritage Foundation lauds tax reform

Count Romina Boccia among those who are excited by what the recent tax reform package will mean to the economy — stock market correction or no. 

She’s a leading budget and economics expert with the …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the February 23 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the February 23 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: In case you missed it…

In case you missed it…
A brief look back at news from the past week.

Iowa and ACA
It appears more Iowans have left the Affordable Care Act individual health market this year than expected,…
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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: 6 unread messages, 4 Snapchats and 116 emails on a good day

We might be saving paper with apps and messaging services, but we aren’t making communication any easier on ourselves. At least that’s Miriam Kramer’s thought over at Mashable. Over on my iPhone, I have 13 separate …

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NOTEBOOK: Iowa’s Olympic score: 0

How can Iowa, a state with this much snow and ice, not have a single athlete on the U.S. Winter Olympics team? 

Team members hail from 31 states, our friends at the U.S. Census Bureau report. …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: ‘Green economic pastures alongside rivers of red ink’ not a pretty picture

Here’s an interesting piece just posted on FiveThirtyEight that explains why the current federal deficit is unusual — and worrisome. As Boston Globe columnist Evan Horowitz writes: “We are following a path that the country …

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