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NOTEBOOK - One Good Read: Finding purpose at work

BY KURT HELLAND

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 3:25 PM

The article was titled “How to Be Happy.” How could I not read it? Can such a pursuit really be resolved in one quick read? As it turns out, no; the New York Times story is actually rather lengthy.
NOTEBOOK: Grassley blasts EPA for new secrecy move

BY PERRY BEEMAN

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 1:41 PM

There’s an interesting fight brewing in Washington over what some consider an effort by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, to make one of the federal government’s least-open agencies even more secretive.
NOTEBOOK: Mandelbaum praises Fleur sidewalks

BY PERRY BEEMAN

Monday, July 22, 2019 10:38 AM

Somehow this city has run for decades without sidewalks along Fleur Drive, a major commercial corridor and home to hotels, shops, restaurants and the airport.
NOTEBOOK - One Good Read: A machine as your boss?

BY CHRIS CONETZKEY

Friday, July 19, 2019 3:34 PM

I shared some advice recently with a batch of interns about always trying to make your boss’s life easier. This New York Times story about artificial intelligence suggests it might be your artificial boss soon optimizing the way you make its life easier and the business more productive.
NOTEBOOK: A 40th birthday with benefits

BY CHRIS CONETZKEY

Friday, July 19, 2019 6:00 AM

Some people just buy a sports car. Others, well, they turn the potential for a midlife crisis into an opportunity to give.
NOTEBOOK: The latest on Alzheimer’s

BY JOE GARDYASZ

Friday, July 19, 2019 6:00 AM
NOTEBOOK: Water Works scores energy awards, savings

BY PERRY BEEMAN

Friday, July 19, 2019 6:00 AM
NOTEBOOK: How do you build meaningful art into a community?

BY KATE HAYDEN

Thursday, July 18, 2019 11:18 AM
NOTEBOOK - One Good Read: Red Wing Shoes

BY KATHY A. BOLTEN

Tuesday, July 16, 2019 11:06 AM

Drive about 55 miles southeast of Minneapolis-St. Paul and you’ll arrive in Red Wing, Minn., a town of about 16,000 located on the Mississippi River.
NOTEBOOK - Who's in the July 12 issue?

Friday, July 12, 2019 6:00 AM
NOTEBOOK - Weld: What federal STEM plan?

BY PERRY BEEMAN

Friday, July 12, 2019 6:00 AM

When Jeff Weld, who runs the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, traveled to Washington, D.C., to help the federal government come up with a new STEM plan, he was surprised there was already one on the shelf. It had been there since 2013 in the wake of the America COMPETES Act, a real mouthful that officially is the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act.
NOTEBOOK - Could Hy-Vee’s online locker service serve residents in food deserts?

BY KATHY A. BOLTEN

Friday, July 12, 2019 6:00 AM

The expansion of Hy-Vee Aisles Online locker service beyond the chain’s brick and mortar buildings has prompted Des Moines city staffers to ask whether the units could help address the issue of food deserts in the community.
NOTEBOOK - Sorensen: Bankers’ association doesn’t see any way to oppose GreenState acquisition

BY JOE GARDYASZ

Friday, July 12, 2019 6:00 AM

Iowa Bankers Association President and CEO John Sorensen issued a statement last week in response to an announcement that the state’s largest credit union, the former University of Iowa Community Credit Union — was buying the remaining seven Central Iowa branches of Fort Dodge-based First American Bank.
NOTEBOOK - One Good Read: Why men thought women weren’t made to vote

BY JOE GARDYASZ

Thursday, July 11, 2019 2:59 PM

Here’s an interesting read from the Atlantic that provides an entertaining look at how even some of the most educated minds a little over 100 years ago judged women as mentally and physically incapable of voting.
NOTEBOOK - One Good Read: UI professor: Here’s how the legal system squeezed out alternatives to the automobile

BY CHRIS CONETZKEY

Wednesday, July 10, 2019 11:22 AM

University of Iowa College of Law Associate Professor Gregory H. Shill wrote an interesting piece for The Atlantic that looks at how lawmakers essentially made America car-dependant by law.

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