Hallways in the upper floors of the newly renovated Hotel Fort Des Moines are finished with a unique carpet that lists 10 events from the 102-year-old building’s history.
My favorite: “1939 – Police liquor squad …
Alexander Hamilton believed in government intervention.
His 1791 “Report on the Subject of Manufactures” was a 32,000-word argument for state-led economic planning, according to the 2020 book “Radical Hamilton; Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder” …
I admired Alexander Hamilton long before biographer Ron Chernow and Broadway playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda made our flawed founding father into a 21st-century icon.
As Aaron Burr sings at the opening of Miranda’s “Hamilton”:
“How does …
It seems like every week I read a new report on women leaving the workforce and every week I have conversations with women friends who are contemplating quitting their jobs due to burnout.
Trying to …
A Hollywood actress, working on location for a major motion picture in a small Iowa town, is bludgeoned to death with a golf club for no apparent reason.
The trail of clues left by the …
How many times has someone in your work or personal life asked you if you were really listening? I fully admit that sometimes I catch myself nodding when someone says something to me, only to …
Neil Harl, who died Nov. 4 at age 88, was quite possibly the smartest person I ever interviewed and definitely the fastest talker.
Harl knew all there was to know about agriculture and finance.
He …
“They finally did it,” my old friend K.C. said when I caught up with him on the Grand Avenue bridge over Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
“Did what?” I asked. “Passed a reapportionment plan?
“They …
“The Making of Bill Knapp,” a new book by Simpson College history professor William Friedricks, includes sketches of 23 people who were key to the 95-year-old real estate developer’s success.
The book begins with quick …
“We are certainly in uncharted waters,” economist James Paulsen wrote in a recent newsletter that explores topics ranging from inflation to economic policy, employment to productivity, and millennials to downtowns.
Aging baby boomers are being …
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