CIRAS Digest: Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015
Happy Thursday. As usual in the first quarter of Iowa’s calendar, our conversation is again dominated today by money and politics.
Here’s what’s going on as of now:
CIRAS points Mason City nonprofit to cremation urns
David Crowe made the announcement without warning, his wife recalls. They were in the car one day, and he simply turned to say, “When I die, I want to be cremated.”
One week later, Crowe’s widow would become the first customer of a new business seeking to give Iowans a novel, low-cost burial alternative. The hope is that this new line of handmade wooden cremation urns, conceived with help from CIRAS by the nonprofit training center where Crowe worked before his death, will create new financial stability for the mentally and physically disabled folks who used to be Crowe’s coworkers. It also may solve problems for a few families along the way.
CIRAS Digest: Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015
Happy Wednesday.
Lots of talk out there today. Talk about manufacturing, job training and broadband, among other things. Plus, a daily affirmation from the Wall Street Journal.
The weather is warm(ish). Wade in:
CIRAS Digest: Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015
Welcome to another of our (nearly always) daily attempts at helping you stay informed. Today’s roundup includes the governor, contradictory experts and early indications of a winter slowdown. So basically, it’s a Tuesday.
Here’s what going on in the world of industry today:
FYI: Friday, January 9, 2015
Happy Frozen Friday. (That’s a temperature-in-our-communications-office reference, not notice of a particular Disney-themed day at ISU.)
One of the things we hope to do with the CIRAS Newswire is make you more aware of interesting stories out there that impact industry or that you might have missed.
Here’s what we declare to be interesting today:
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