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NOTEBOOK: Meet the 40s … live

We hosted our annual Forty Under 40 pre-event photo shoot recently, and took the opportunity to do some live, red carpet-style interviews with each of the honorees. I hosted and had a ton of fun …

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‘The Power of Self-Compassion’

The Business Record accepts suggestions for articles, videos or other materials to share with the business community. Des Moines-area business consultant Kevin Pokorny shared this with the newsroom team recently: A short YouTube video called …

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NOTEBOOK: Back to finance class — for a lesson on market volatility

It seems like the term “market volatility” gets thrown quite a bit in financial news releases, so I thought it would be interesting to sit in on a Lunch & Learn event last week over …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Experts cracked the laptop of the crypto CEO who died with sole access to $137 million, but the money was already gone

BY KATE HAYDEN: Millions of dollars were missing after a crypto CEO died without sharing the passwords to his accounts. Investigators cracked his laptop only to find the money was gone, reports Business Insider. Gerald Cotten, founder of …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read:Is it supposed to be this cold? No!

It was 3 below zero when the newsroom convened for its morning meeting today, continuing a winter of weather insults that felt colder than usual. And, no, it shouldn’t be this cold. It’s early in …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Amazon Day shipping option comes to Prime customers

Amazon may be coming to my rescue, sort of. I, like plenty of others in the U.S., have had packages stolen off my porch. Now it looks like Amazon might help curb those porch thefts …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the March 1 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the March 1 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: An unconventional crop

When I think of eating bugs, I think back to Disney’s “Lion King”: “Slimy, yet satisfying,” Pumbaa the warthog advises a young Simba. 

More than 80 percent of the world eats thousands of species of …

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NOTEBOOK: What happens on the farm stays on the farm?

Ever since our Economic Forecast event on Jan. 31, I’ve been asking, poking around and reading about about the health of the ag economy. At the event, I asked a question that stemmed back to …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Iowa Nice on display

When Christopher Cadelago, a native of California and a reporter on the caucus trail for Politico, ran into a snowdrift during this past weekend’s blizzard, he also slid right into some good old-fashioned Iowa Nice …