h digitalfootprint web 728x90

The Insider Notebook

DSC 6869

NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the March 29th issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the March 29 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 BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Mar 27, 2019
DSC 6869

QUOTABLE: “Architecture is the clothes that a city wears to a job interview.”

That little memorable quote comes from a recent presentation at a Greater Des Moines Committee meeting by Claudia Cackler, executive director of the Iowa Architectural Foundation. It’s not her own quote; it was borrowed from …
By CHRIS CONETZKEY | Mar 27, 2019
DSC 6869

NOTEBOOK: A ‘very Harry Potter-esque’ transcription app

When I met recently for an interview with Heather Jones, the new executive director of Iowa Sister States, I couldn’t resist showing off the cool app that I’ve begun using lately on my smartphone — …
By JOE GARDYASZ | Mar 27, 2019
DSC 6869

NOTEBOOK: Gerdin Business Building expansion to include innovative ‘sales suite’

As the weather begins warming up for real this spring, construction crews are beginning to move dirt for the expansion of the Gerdin Business Building on the Iowa State University campus. 

One of the most …
By JOE GARDYASZ | Mar 27, 2019
DSC 6869

NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Flood of CBD products puts FDA in a bind

You might have heard news reports this week of Central Iowa authorities cracking down on CBD-infused products. You might have also heard claims that CBD “kills cancer cells,” provides alternative “treatment” for Alzheimer’s disease, or “controls” blood …
By KATE HAYDEN | Mar 27, 2019
DSC 6869

NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Learning more about ‘The Inventor’

Elizabeth Holmes’ name should sound familiar if you keep track of business or tech news. The founder and CEO of Theranos, a much-hyped health diagnostics company, had a vision for how to disrupt the health …
By SUZANNE BEHNKE | Mar 26, 2019
DSC 6869

NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: U.S. trails Europe in technology and data-science skills ranking

The news out last week that Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stayed at 2.4 percent last month made this bit of news from a Bloomberg article all the more interesting — a survey of Coursera users showed …
By SUZANNE BEHNKE | Mar 26, 2019
DSC 6869

NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Get to know your trans co-workers

Bloomberg Businessweek interviewed nine transgender individuals for this week’s Equality Issue. All of the people Bloomberg spoke to struggled in a work environment that wasn’t necessarily ready for them, Bloomberg wrote, but many of them had …
By KATE HAYDEN | Mar 22, 2019
DSC 6869

NOTEBOOK: Revenue estimates are down; here’s why, and what it means for Iowa tax reform

Earlier this week we shared that the state panel that estimates how much tax revenue the state of Iowa will collect predicted a slight slowdown in the next budgeting year that starts July 1. In total, the …
By CHRIS CONETZKEY | Mar 21, 2019
DSC 6869

NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Millennials catching up to boomers in super-rich stratosphere

It seems like everyone around me is getting younger, and now it looks like the super-rich are no exception. Millennials now make up nearly half of the U.S. households with assets worth more than $25 …
By JOE GARDYASZ | Mar 21, 2019