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This is the week. The winter holiday season is now upon us, like it or not. The next six weeks will be a blur for many of our fellow business owners and leaders as they …
By Jessica Maldonado | Public affairs director, PolicyWorks “Soccer mom” was a label I swore would never fit me. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized the problem with labels is that they’re hollow words that …
Modern agriculture has bred so much nutrition out of fruits and vegetables that “we are left in the bizarre and paradoxical situation that we are essentially the world’s most overfed nation but also one of …
By Stephanie Majeran | Owner, WellRun Results LLC If you’ve followed along with any of my previous articles, you know that I read a lot. I’ve always been a reader, but I only recently discovered that …
It’s easy to see unethical behavior in the past, Stanford University’s Martin Hellman will argue next week when he delivers the Robert Stewart Distinguished Lecture at Iowa State University. Slavery was wrong, as was denying …
By Suzanna de Baca | President and group publisher, Business Publications Corp. “You don’t look Latina.” I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard that reaction when someone finds out my New Mexican heritage. Clearly, …
I’ve spent a good part of my career covering Des Moines’ transformation from a down-in-the-mouth community in the early 1970s into a 21st-century model of urban design.
When I arrived here in 1975, there were …
We live in a world of nanosecond attention spans. One of the reasons why publications like USA Today came into being is because they wrote pithy, front page blurbs, used a lot of colorful graphs …
By Teri Sporer | Chief operating officer/shareholder, Holmes Murphy When I say “web,” I’m going way back before the Internet. Many of you have heard of the black widow and the story “Charlotte’s Web” — …
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have wholly changed how Americans think about Thanksgiving week. Don’t get me wrong; there is absolutely a place for holiday sales, and I know for many retail businesses, the Friday …
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