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Posted October 02, 2019in Lunch With...

Kristen Sabin at Lucca

Advertising agency executive shares her views on the future of digital. Kristen Sabin is the chief operating officer of full-service digital agency Happy Medium, running day-to-day operations across sales, processes [...]

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Posted September 04, 2019in Lunch With...

Mark Anderson

The image of a used car salesman has changed. Mark Anderson is a manager at IA Motors, a used vehicle lot on East 14th. We asked him to lunch recently, [...]

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Posted July 31, 2019in Lunch With...

Brooks Reynolds and Scott Toland at High Life Lounge

Just love food. Brooks Reynolds is a founder and the major force behind bacon festivals in Des Moines, Japan, Colorado and Iceland. Scott Toland is the CEO and President of [...]

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Posted July 03, 2019in Lunch With...

Cyd Koehn at Wasabi

Cowgirl and marksman is one of several women who dominate upscale catering in Des Moines. Cyd Koehn owns Catering by Cyd. She has catered in Des Moines now for 25 [...]

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Posted June 05, 2019in Lunch With...

Keith Miller at Maxie’s

Keith Miller is a distinguished professor of law at Drake. He teaches torts, products liability, gaming law, and workers compensation. With big changes in gaming law coming to Iowa in [...]

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Posted May 01, 2019in Lunch With...

Bruce Kelley at Bubba

CEO of EMC Insurance Company shares his perspective on Des Moines and the insurance industry. Bruce Kelley is the longtime CEO of EMC Insurance Company, a 108-year-old business in downtown [...]

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Posted April 03, 2019in Lunch With...

Bill Landis at The Walnut

We talked about the trend of free music on Ingersoll and bartending in general Bill Landis had as much to do as anyone with the 10-year-old phenomenon of free, quality [...]

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Posted March 06, 2019in Lunch With...

Lunch with Larry Lehmer at the Merle Hay mall food court

Author of books about early days of rock and longtime Des Moines Register editor speaks Larry Lehmer spent 25 years at the Des Moines Register, mostly under the radar on [...]

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Posted February 06, 2019in Lunch With...

Jeff Fleming at Jesse’s Embers

Jeff Fleming is the director of the Des Moines Art Center. He’s been in Des Moines now for 20 years, a period that coincides with a golden age for the [...]

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Posted January 02, 2019in Lunch With...

Dick Grangaard at Manhattan Deli

Brokering, fishing, skiing and gambling Dick Grangaard is a retired stockbroker. Active stockbrokers cannot talk to the media without jumping through hoops, so I recently asked Grangaard to lunch to discuss a lifetime [...]

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