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NOTEBOOK: Barbie’s big mistake

Network security analyst Antoinette Stevens posed a question for her audience: How much could a speaking Barbie doll influence young girls’ view of mathematics?

At the Iowa Women Lead Change Central Iowa Conference Nov. 7, …

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NOTEBOOK: In recent years, Greater Des Moines hotel tax revenues have lagged growth in rooms

Greater Des Moines has proven a bit of a garden spot for hotel building in recent years, but the extra rooms aren’t generating significant growth in hotel-motel tax revenues, according to a report presented to …

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NOTEBOOK: Things are looking up at the airport

Executive Director Kevin Foley and his colleagues at Des Moines International Airport were full of good news at the Airport Authority Board meeting this morning, ranging from higher food and beverage sales to new flights…
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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: How to live in 200 square feet


From Fast Company, learn about Ori, a company formed by MIT graduates trying to come up with a way to save space for the inhabitants of the globe, 66 percent of whom are expected to live in…
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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Richard Branson offers prize for efficient AC

Fast Company reports that people who work their way out of poverty tend to buy three things as soon as they can — TVs, refrigerators and air conditioners. This has become increasingly the case in India,…
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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: In photos unpublished for 100 years, the joy of war’s end

Sunday was Veterans Day, which marks the end of World War I. The New York Times shared these photos and their cutlines from their archives. The images depict a unity and happiness and relief that…
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INSIDER NOTEBOOK: Famous for our French

 

Boston is trying to pay attention to us. Really, they kind of like Des Moines, as Boston Globe reporter Jon Marcus alluded to in a Nov. 6 lifestyle trends piece. Guess what? We can …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the November 9 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the November 9 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …

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NOTEBOOK: Annuities: Predictable income, protection against inflation

Annuities can be an important piece of your retirement income strategy. But it helps to first understand them, which is no mean feat as they seem to come in as many variations as do snowflakes.…

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NOTEBOOK: Iowa Falls’ losses show struggle of rural Iowa

I recently spoke with Sara Konrad Baranowski, editor at the Iowa Falls Times Citizen and advocate of small communities and local news. 

Iowa Falls had two community struggles come to a head in one week …