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Opinion: The nuanced design behind gender equality

BY LORI CHESSER | Partner and department chair, Davis Brown Law Firm   Despite so many improvements, gender equality in the workplace (let alone in other parts of life) often seems like a chimera: something that…
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The Elbert Files: Bad corporate cultures

By now, I’m guessing few people believed Wells Fargo chief John Stumpf when he said last week there was nothing wrong with the corporate culture of the nation’s largest bank after employees deliberately bilked more …

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The Elbert Files: Film explores historic highway

A new film that credits Des Moines publisher E.T. Meredith as founder of the long-forgotten Jefferson Highway will be shown for the first time at 6 p.m. tonight (Sept. 23) at the Iowa State Historical …

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Guest Opinion: Why I came back to Des Moines

A great deal of my boyhood was spent with my father, Doug Reichardt, in the boardrooms of United Way of Central Iowa, the Greater Des Moines Partnership and Holmes Murphy & Associates. 

A subject of …

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Guest Opinion: Building a personal board of directors

BY MANDI McREYNOLDS | Global community relations manager, Principal Financial Group Inc.   Goodbye, mentorship

“Who is your mentor? You don’t have one. What? You should have one! Make sure they are experienced, have time, and…
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The Elbert Files: A short history of electric cars

This Wall Street Journal headline caught my wife’s eye at breakfast recently: “Electric Cars Will Be Here Sooner Than You Expect.”  

The article offered several reasons, including this: “Hy-Vee Inc., a chain of 241 …

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Guest Opinion: Where is the positivity?

By Angela L. Walker Franklin | President, Des Moines University


In January 2016 I rang in the New Year by reciting the “Optimist Creed.” Although I am not a member of Optimist InternationaI, I have…
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Guest Opinion: Where is the positivity?

By Angela L. Walker Franklin | President, Des Moines University


In January 2016 I rang in the New Year by reciting the “Optimist Creed.” Although I am not a member of Optimist InternationaI, I have…
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Guest Opinion: What would Louise do?

By Kristin Griffith | Executive director, Young Women’s Resource Center
When I imagine Louise Rosenfield Noun, the leader of a group of visionary women who founded the Young Women’s Resource Center (YWRC), I envision a…
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The Elbert Files: Raise taxes for greedy EpiPen

The controversy over the EpiPen’s huge price increases is an example of what my friend K.C. likes to say is “another reason we need to raise taxes.”

I know that sounds strange. Let me explain.…