Two antitrust experts penned an interesting opinion piece in the Atlantic magazine that makes a compelling case for banning huge merger deals altogether. According to results of research they conducted, out of the 78 proposed mergers from …
More and more people have large sums of money in savings – and it’s way more than any financial-planning manual or guru will tell you to have, writes Brian Hood, who is a certified financial planner and …
Last month I reached out to some Des Moines leaders to ask what issues were top of mind as they entered 2021. A theme quickly emerged: Many said leading their teams with optimism and positivity …
Angie Besendorfer, the Midwest regional vice president for Western Governors University, visited Iowa recently and I took her up on an invitation to sit down in person for coffee — rather than another Zoom meeting …
The proverb “necessity is the mother of invention” has been bandied about for centuries. When there’s a need, the saying goes, someone usually finds a solution. There’s been a lot of need this past year, …
The opening line of a recent Chrysalis newsletter covering Black History Month is really powerful: “It’s tough to imagine being something you have never seen.” In the newsletter, Eugenia Kutsch Stanton, president of the Chrysalis Foundation board, …
As reporters, our job is to ask questions, right? We ask questions for a variety of reasons. We want to learn more about a topic so we can better explain it to our audience. Sometimes …
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police last summer launched a reckoning that caused many people, institutions and businesses to look within to create a better understanding of the inequities that exist in this …
About a month after I was kindly invited to join the beta app Clubhouse, I have not entirely figured out how I want to use it yet. (Somebody online described it as Medium for the …
I was doing some online research for a story when I came across a mention of Miriam de Dios Woodward, global CEO of PolicyWorks in West Des Moines. She was recognized recently among a distinguished …
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