The Insider Notebook

Algona, a community of about 5,500 people located 135 miles north of Greater Des Moines, received a fair amount of air time at our recent Power Breakfast.

When the conversation at the Oct. 25 Business …

Next year’s Iowa Women Lead Change Central Iowa conference will grow from one day to two on Nov. 6-7, 2018, in Des Moines. Nationwide will sponsor again, IWLC Chief Executive Tiffany O’Donnell also announced at …

Had I gone to high school a generation later, I might have been voted “Least Likely to Be An Early Adopter of New Apps.” But when I registered with the Urbandale Chamber to attend the …

Gretchen Carlson came to Des Moines with a strong message for men and women in the workplace who face harassment: Take back your power.

The author and former TV journalist was the keynote speaker at …

Nearly every morning after our newsroom staff meeting, Suzanne Behnke and I head over to the next-door Hy-Vee’s Starbucks to further discuss the Daily e-newsletter strategies or operational needs. Now, there have been some creative …

As the Dow broke the 23,000 threshold for the first time in October, a longtime student investment fund at the University of Iowa also set a record of its own. The Henry Fund, which is …

A couple of weeks ago, I stopped by the Barnum Factory for a tour of what used to be a paint factory in the Central Place industrial area, near the main post office in Des …