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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Workers are ‘rage-quitting’ jobs as employers deal with tightening labor market

A new trend is beginning to be seen as the world continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic: rage quitting. According to this story from Business Insider, more and more people, mostly in low-paying hourly jobs …

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NOTEBOOK: Cyber threat level against private businesses urgent, White House warns in national memo

Des Moines Area Community College recently announced an investigation into a cybersecurity incident first identified on June 2. The investigation prompted DMACC’s information technology department to voluntarily shut down all online instruction and the telephone …

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NOTEBOOK: Two lessons for tomorrow’s challenges

As they say, hindsight is 20/20 — and panelists at this year’s virtual Iowa Technology Summit had the benefit of tough lessons from the year 2020 to share with Iowa companies tuned in for seminars …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Saying goodbye to the millennial lifestyle subsidy

I was among those folks who just scratched their heads wondering how some of the popular online lifestyle convenience services my younger colleagues and neighbors would use — DoorDash, Uber, Airbnb and others — could …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: When are you returning to the office?

As we begin acclimating ourselves to a world that is opening back up and living with fewer restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic spread, one question seems to pop up in nearly every conversation I …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: An economic recovery like no other

True to form, the U.S. economic recovery from the pandemic is shaping up to be as unique as the pandemic itself has been, as this Wall Street Journal article from Wednesday details. “When Covid-19 pandemic restrictions sent …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Tensions growing between motorized bicyclists and those who use pedal power

A few years ago, as my husband and I struggled to ride our bicycles up a hill on Decorah’s Trout Run Trail, we watched a woman (older than the two of us) scoot up the …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Green finance goes mainstream

Here’s an interesting read from the Wall Street Journal that takes an encouraging look at the prospects for a more sustained interest in green investments, fueled perhaps not so much by altruism but another kind of green …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Communities finding enticing ways to lure new residents to their towns

Small and medium-sized communities are taking advantage of companies allowing employees to work remotely, offering incentives to the workers to move to their towns, Alyson Krueger reports for the New York Times. The idea behind the …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Marking one year since George Floyd’s murder

One year ago on May 25, 46-year-old George Floyd, a Black man, died in police custody, in full view of bystanders who captured cellphone video of Officer Derek Chauvin pinning Floyd with a knee on …