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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: A closer look at the IRS Whistleblower Office

Here’s an interesting column from John Hinman, a 39-year veteran of the Internal Revenue Service who recently took on the role of director of the IRS Whistleblower Office. If you’ve never heard of this part of the …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Broke colleges surviving through mergers

In recent years, several small and mostly private colleges have struggled financially to keep their doors open. The pandemic accelerated college administrators’ decisions about the futures of their institutions. Some administrators looked to mergers with …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Does being nice hurt your career?

University of Iowa associate professor of management and entrepreneurship Rong Su has been conducting research to understand if being nice affects your career success, and her findings are shared in this Fast Company article. The first …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: If you missed it, be looking for new murals and artwork from this year’s Art Week

If you’ve noticed new artwork in some of the community’s neighborhoods, it’s likely the product of last month’s Art Week, which featured 136 events and 152 local artists in six areas throughout the city. Art …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Heartland Forward report looks at opportunities amid labor crisis

Heartland Forward, an Arkansas-based nonprofit “think and do tank,” this week released its latest research report, “The Labor Crisis and the Future of the Heartland.” The report “explores how decades of a reduction in domestic manufacturing, demographic …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: The story behind the smiley face

Ever wonder how the smiley face – that amber-colored circle with two black marks for eyes and an arced line for a mouth – came to be? Two men apparently had the same idea – one in 1963 and the other …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Some surprising good news: Bookstores are booming and becoming more diverse

I can remember walking into Barnes and Noble as a kid and being amazed by how many books there were, and I’ve continued to enjoy visiting bookstores and seeing the unique character of the independent …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Working parents are having a rough summer. Some co-workers don’t want to hear about it.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column for our Fearless initiative, which focuses on women’s and gender issues, about the need to recognize all life journeys when offering workplace flexibility. While the column specifically focused …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Black women will get no-strings-attached monthly checks in this new guaranteed income experiment

In Georgia, Black women make 63 cents for every dollar white men make. And nearly half of the remaining Black households in the neighborhood live on less than $25,000 a year, Adele Peters reports for Fast Company. The …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: How the rest of the world is doing flexible working

While so many of our economy’s sectors – entertainment, public transport, restaurants – have largely returned to operations similar to pre-pandemic times, white-collar office jobs have not, Yasmeen Serhan writes in the Atlantic. The reason, most …