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A look at the story behind the New York Times Silicon Prairie story
Over the four years that I’ve written for Silicon Prairie News, I haven’t seen an article on Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City’s startup scene receive as much buzz and attention as the recent New York Times story, “Tech Start-Ups Find a Home on the Prairie.” Tweet after tweet, Facebook like after Facebook like and…
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Downtown Des Moines featured in New York Times
On Tuesday, the Commercial section the New York Times’ website featured an article on real estate development downtown Des Moines. The article noted the investment that Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Nationwide Mutual Insurance and other large companies are putting into developing the Western Gateway neighborhood as well as the efforts by the City…
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Kristof, Nazario to present at KANEKO on journalism
When I spoke with Jacquie Scoones of KANEKO last Friday, she told me the reason they selected four journalists to headline this fall’s Great Minds Series was because they felt it’s a field in which a tremendous amount of creativity is being applied. Referring to this week’s speakers, Nicholas Kristof and Sonia Nazario, she said,…