My friend K.C. was admiring artist Richard Serra’s “Five Plate Pentagon” in the southeast corner of the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park.
As I approached, he mumbled something about the Legislature needing to grow …
If you wonder why we have not had a recession lately, or if we will have one sometime this year, economist Jim Paulsen has an interesting answer.
Before retiring in 2022, Paulsen wrote a deeply …
The modern era of UFO sightings began midyear 1947, shortly after I was born, which helps explain my lifelong fascination with unidentified flying objects and why I was drawn to a new book by technology …
In a past job, I had a talented individual on my team. I recognized her skills and asked her if she’d like to lead an innovative technology project we were working on. Her response was …
Sports betting, like cancer rates and bad water, is a growing problem in Iowa.
There’s a relatively simple solution – limiting advertising – which I’ll get to in a minute. But first, some background.
Sports …
What’s happened to Iowa?
I’ve been asked many versions of that question in recent months. Typically, but not exclusively, by Democrats who can’t understand how a middle-of-the-road state like Iowa could, almost overnight, become a …
In one of my first jobs after college, I had the privilege of meeting Daniel Goleman, the psychologist who would go on to write the book “Emotional Intelligence.” I invited Goleman to speak at a …
It was a bright winter day when I saw my friend K.C. deep in thought at the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park. He was looking at Dutch artist Willem de Kooning’s “Reclining Figure” sculpture.…
It has become fashionable to denigrate old people, or at least old politicians.
Before Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, died last fall at age 90, her apparent dementia had become a punchline for comedians and …
In my early 30s, I was leading a department of a Wall Street firm when we acquired a boutique investment practice. I suddenly found myself leading a team of very successful portfolio managers – all …
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