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NOTEBOOK: A timely reason to take a fresh look at Roth IRA option

Much year-end tax planning is going on, so here’s another item to consider: rolling a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA to trim or even eliminate future taxes.

The idea here is to let the …

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NOTEBOOK: Social Club, UnityPoint Health partner on movement studio project

A dedicated studio space for dance classes at the Des Moines Social Club has gotten a face-lift  and a boost on future programming through a partnership between the Social Club and UnityPoint Health-Des Moines.  …

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NOTEBOOK: Happy anniversary, Business Record!

The Business Record celebrated its 35th anniversary Dec. 12 with a party and the launch of Greater, an ideas initiative that will entail features in print and online as well as events in 2019. (See …

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NOTEBOOK: Startup goPuff to bring convenience delivery service to Des Moines

A Philadelphia-based digital retail startup is bringing its industry-disrupting delivery concept to Des Moines. 

The company, goPuff, aims its delivery app squarely at millennials who would rather pick up their smartphone to order munchies rather …

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GREATER: Accelerate innovation

Geoff Wood
Founder, Gravitate

The Idea: Remove “job lock” barriers, increase tech employees and investors, align with Ames, support the infrastructure — accelerate innovation.

Entrepreneurs are among the most important groups of people in any …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: The stinky business of catching porch pirates

Holiday porch thieves beware — or at least refrain from stealing at an engineer’s house. Former NASA engineer Mark Rober was told by police they couldn’t do anything to track down the package stolen on …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Starbucks to offer coffee delivery across U.S.

Christmas came early with this announcement from the Wall Street Journal. Starbucks is going to start delivering, joining the trend of providing ease of service to customers. WSJ says of that trend: “Delivery is becoming a …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: We should stop drinking coffee first thing in the morning, study suggests

This headline from Fox News drew an immediate “No way!” response from me. My caffeine habit (addiction) is well-known among my Business Record co-workers, and one of them kindly (or annoyingly?) sent this article my way. Let’s …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the December 14th issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the December 14 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: Ramsey Lewis’ last concert: Des Moines

Here’s another little tale from a visit with Hoyt Sherman Place Executive Director Robert Warren.

Grammy-winning jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis’ Sept. 28 concert at Hoyt Sherman proved to be his last. 

“Ramsey was very, very …