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Submitted by Steve Petersen, founder, Bursting Through
Bursting Through is the storytelling movement for the queer/straight relationship. It is also a for-profit business founded by a queer man who had a very successful 27-year corporate …
Submitted by Gregory Lin
Confused. Relieved. Micro-managed. Excited. Anxious. Indifferent. Ready. These are descriptors young professionals provided when I asked how they feel about returning to the office.
In a recent survey of over 3,600 …
A new book, “Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America,” traces the work of more than 6,000 out-of-work writers to create travel and information guides for all 48 states …
The last year and a half has been filled with constant disruption, from the ever-evolving pandemic, economic volatility and amplification of racial equity issues to the election — and for those of us in Iowa, …
“Warren Buffett was a genius.”
Those words came from behind me and were muffled by a face mask. When I turned around I saw the eyes and forehead of my old friend K.C., who had …
Recently I had a conversation with a CEO friend who confessed he was struggling with a member of his leadership team who openly expressed his political views at work and on social media. Not only …
During the pandemic lockdown, 78-year-old David Junck, a retired Boone County farmer, did something no one has done in more than 130 years: He built a nearly exact replica of the world’s first functional self-powered …
State government is sitting on a windfall of cash that has piled up during the past year as a result of the COVID pandemic.
It could be as much as $2 billion but is more …
Submitted by Rick Tollakson, Hallie Still-Caris and Jake Christensen Picture this: You pick up a guest from the Des Moines International Airport. Maybe this person has never been to Greater Des Moines. Maybe you are …
Twenty-five years ago, when Josephs Jewelers celebrated 125 years as a family-owned business, I wrote that education and integrity were its hallmarks.
“The better educated our employees are, the more information they can pass on …
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