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One of the best new miniseries released in recent months was Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit,” which follows the life of an orphan who learned to play chess from a janitor at the group home where she …
Consumers are buying more of everything, from champagne and skirts to shaving kits as retail sales rise while the world opens up with more people getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Consumers are also booking more plane trips, …
An investment journal that I follow just published an interesting story about an ironic twist embodied in a lawsuit involving an annuity company that bases much of its operations in Des Moines. The story by Investment …
The National Association of Home Builders this month published an updated edition of its publication that includes a survey of homebuyers’ preferences.
Buyers’ first preference? Sixty percent of those surveyed said they preferred to buy …
Extending passenger railroad service from Chicago to Des Moines and then to Omaha would provide another transportation tool that could be used to attract and retain top talent for the region, said Jay Byers, CEO …
We shared a story earlier in the week from the New York Times about how women are experiencing higher rates of Zoom fatigue. So I nearly scrolled past this Fast Company piece yesterday when I opened its …
Bloomberg: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke with top executives of a dozen major food and agriculture companies –including Walmart Inc., Bayer AG and Deere & Co. — on efforts to advance racial equity as …
Martial arts and building a business have more in common than you may think, writes Brandon C. White for Entrepreneur. White cites three lessons that apply to business that martial arts can teach us: 1. …
The number of hours worked by people in white-collar and front-line service jobs has increased during the pandemic, causing some to ask for increased pay or changes in their job descriptions or titles, writes Krithika Varagur …
Power and water utilities touch the lives of everyone, ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg wrote this week. It’s timely, and it’s challenging: The national news swing has already moved on from the majority of coverage after the …
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