Welcome aboard, Rick, to the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative. Our readers are going to love the knowledge and experience you bring to coverage of businesses all over the state. You definitely know the territory! Meanwhile, I think the two of us should resume the occasional lunches we shared when both of us were newsies with the Des Moines Register. The 80 or so us on the “staff” of the IWC are a lot like the old Register staff — great spread in our ages, our special interests cover the gamut of human activity, and we all have a good bit of professional experience. There’s a good “feel” here about the news & opinion work we are doing.