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NOTEBOOK: Falling limb signals end for invasive Urban Campus tree

Anne Howsare Boyens knew it was time for an extraordinarily large tree outside her office at Building 1 on the DMACC Urban Campus to come down.
About an hour after a student had gotten up …

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NOTEBOOK: Styled by Goodwill

At some point in college, I picked up the book “Overdressed” by Elizabeth Cline and stopped shopping completely at Forever 21 and H&M. Since then, it’s been both a relief and a challenge to minimize …

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NOTEBOOK: In case you missed it…

A brief look back at news from the past week on BusinessRecord.com

Sammons delay; Ankeny jobs
The Iowa Economic Development Authority board granted tax incentives to two Ankeny projects that could generate 500 jobs, but …

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NOTEBOOK: Mississippi governor loses Outback Bowl bet with Gov. Reynolds

The folks who are served by the Stewpot Community Services in Mississippi will dine on Simmons Farm Raised Catfish from Yazoo City after Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant lost a friendly Outback Bowl bet with fellow …

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Help for burned-out leaders from local small business owner

A local small business owner tackled a big project in the last year to address leaders who are burned out. Her intent: To provide insights and ideas on leadership to anyone interested — for free. …

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NOTEBOOK: Expert: Keeping diverse workers is the hard part

At the Business Record, we’ve heard business leaders and public officials bemoan the ongoing lack of skilled workers to fill jobs (we’re at 2.4 percent for unemployment as of the latest numbers released last week).…
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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the December 28 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the December 28 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 …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: After Christmas morning, Amazon Alexa suffers outage in Europe

Thousands of people plugging in new smart speakers for the first time on Christmas Day received a less than smart reply after servers for Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa crashed in Europe, reports the Guardian. Servers were…
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NOTEBOOK: Easter Seals to Easterseals

Business Publications had the pleasure this month of hosting holiday carolers from Easterseals, as do many businesses and groups. We, being wordy people, noticed that the organization’s name had changed from two words to one.…

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NOTEBOOK: DMACC professor is evangelist for surg-tech certification push

If you or a family member are going to have surgery in Iowa, the odds aren’t favorable that the surgical technologist in the operating room will be nationally certified. Currently, about 450 of the approximately …