Q: How did you leverage your leadership for alternative energy? A: More than three decades ago, I helped launch Iowa’s rise to dominance in alternative energy with the first-ever federal wind energy tax credit. Wind energy supports more than 9,000 jobs in Iowa and generates more than 60 ...
It’s an automatic part of daily life for many people: when you get dressed, you put your socks on. Clean, dry socks make the feet feel good. Putting socks on is so routine many folks do that without even thinking about it. Unfortunately, there are children in the Fort Dodge community who ...
Two weeks ago, I spent a couple of hours visiting the Webster County 911 Center. I'd always known that what they do was essential, but sitting in the room and listening to them take call after call, I saw it in a completely different way. The dispatchers are the voices on the other end of 911 ...
Times change. Even so, there are a few constants in life. One is the pleasure provided by the county fairs that continue to be a highlight of summer in Iowa. For as far back as anyone who now lives in this part of Iowa can remember, these summer festivals have been much-anticipated and ...
Nobody wants to end up in an operating room. But when a person has to have surgery, they want to be in the most up-to-date facility with the best trained staff. In Fort Dodge, UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center is taking a huge step toward making sure that surgery patients ...
When Kansas City attorney Michelle Stark Kaufman was recently honored for success and leadership within and outside the field of law, she dipped into her Fort Dodge family roots to share a special story. Her father Maurie Stark, a Fort Dodge tax attorney who, with his wife Mary made ...