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NOTEBOOK: Osprey sightings in Iowa, Boston

Over the weekend, I was in Boston visiting my son and daughter-in-law, and we started our sightseeing at Plum Island. It’s an absolutely beautiful, dune-dotted nature reserve that I had visited on a nitrate-measuring trip …
By PERRY BEEMAN | Sep 6, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the September 2 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the September 2 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 …
By CHRIS CONETZKEY | Sep 2, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: After a change in plans, downtown duplex project is now a townhouse project

Myers Flat(s)   Bruce Myers isn’t a developer by training, but you have to hand it to him for coming up with an interesting downtown residential project.

Myers is the mortgage banker who bought a…
By KENT DARR | Aug 31, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: New calls to action on water quality

There was a different tone at this year’s Farm Progress Show. Oh, sure, I saw the big display of “sale” farm equipment before I even got to Boone, parked side-by-side at Iowa Highway 17 and…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Aug 30, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: Ralston recalls how ABI used ABC to fix “mess”

Mike Ralston has been running the Iowa Association of Business and Industry for about 11 years.


In a note included in his weekly Monday Morning Memo, he recalls arriving to what he called “mess,” an…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Aug 29, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: Community Foundation helps firms be more purposeful in giving

With the launch in 2014 of a new endowment for the Telligen Community Foundation and the recent round of grant giving announced by the Storey Kenworthy Foundation, Editor Chris Conetzkey wondered whether there’s a trend…
By JOE GARDYASZ | Aug 26, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the August 26 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the August 26 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 …
By CHRIS CONETZKEY | Aug 26, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: Mandelbaums following path they predicted for Mainframe Studios

If Justin Mandelbaum was getting impatient to start converting a telecommunications building into a multipurpose space for artists and nonprofit organizations, he wasn’t showing it.

Mandelbaum, and his father, John, wanted the project to be…
By KENT DARR | Aug 25, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: The numbers game at the airport

We learned Tuesday that the new terminal at the Des Moines airport will cost just north of $500 million if it is built near the present terminal, $641.5 million if it is constructed on the…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Aug 24, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: Nelson gets a look from The New York Times

Just in case you are wondering what hometown company Nelson Construction & Development is up to when it is working out of town, this article in The New York Times about the transformation of downtown …
By KENT DARR | Aug 19, 2016