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The Insider Notebook

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NOTEBOOK: Big ideas for Des Moines via Mario Gandelsonas

Jim Cownie was gracious enough to help connect us with renowned urban planner Mario Gandelsonas, who was all set to fly in from the East Coast to participate on our panel at our Oct. 25 …

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NOTEBOOK: In case you missed it…

In case you missed it…
A brief look back at news from the past week.

Growth potential
Des Moines VA is in the running for potential expansion projects. http://bit.ly/2oFZQTZ

Q&A: Mary Kramer
The former Iowa …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: A Principal Global analyst weighs in on bitcoin’s wild ride

The ability to trade bitcoin futures on the Chicago Board Options Exchange may have given some degree of confidence about its legitimacy to skeptical investors, but there’s another, more basic element that’s driving the surge …

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NOTEBOOK: Reynolds to chat with Ivanka Trump about workforce programs

Gov. Kim Reynolds told us a bit about her plans for Thursday. She will meet with presidential daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump about workforce issues. Reynolds, in a wide-ranging interview with the Business Record in …

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NOTEBOOK: How to be a snowbird

Johnny Danos and Teresa Van Vleet-Danos didn’t just wander into Rancho Mirage, Calif., and decide to spend the winter there. The couple spent years testing warmer, sunnier-than-Iowa spots, such as Palm Beach, Fla.’s Gulf Coast …

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NOTEBOOK: Reichardt steps down from longtime chairmanship of Iowa Sports Foundation

After nearly 25 years leading the Iowa Sports Foundation as its board chairman, Doug Reichardt is passing on that baton. 

The retired Holmes Murphy chairman and CEO was a founding board member of Iowa Sports …

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NOTEBOOK: The road to success by cookie

When Dereck Lewis was a budding entrepreneur — before he hit it big with Thelma’s cookies and ice-cream sandwiches, he bought a pallet of glow necklaces and sold them at a giant spring festival at …

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NOTEBOOK: Iowa banks fly south

Banks, it seems, are snowbirds, too.

If you run low on cash in Phoenix during your wintertime sojourn there, feel free to swing by any of the area branches of Des Moines-based Bankers Trust Co. …

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NOTEBOOK: Keynoter gives up fee, helps local charity

One of our favorite Des Moines Brits, Sam Hoyle, passed along a nice story from the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s recent Executive Forum on Diversity and Inclusion.
       
Keynote speaker Yasmine Mustafa …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the December 15 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the December 15 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 …