Archive for September 2003

Dynamic Broadband, a wireless Internet service provider for businesses and individuals that got its start in rural Iowa, is entering the Des Moines market.

The company, headed by former GE Capital auditor Mike Miller, plans …

What if you bought cut flowers and they continued to bloom for a month, or if vegetables stayed fresh and safe to eat in your refrigerator for weeks at a time?

A West Des Moines …

The chairman of the Grow Iowa Values Fund board says the fund may fall far short of hitting its projected half-billion mark.

The fund, established this year by the Legislature, expects to receive $503 million …

When it comes to showing clients a good time, Des Moines area business leaders have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Not everyone we spoke with wanted to share their wining and dining strategies, including …

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A vote on whether the governments of Polk County and the city of Des Moines should merge is still at least a year away, but that shouldn’t stop the metropolitan area from thinking and acting …

Jason Parker, a 31-year-old financial consultant for Wells Fargo Investments in Private Client Services division, says he has always been intrigued with flying. While attending high school, he took a few lessons, but he didn’t …

Dear Mr. Berko:

Can you please tell me how such a huge company like Kmart could get in so much trouble that it had to declare bankruptcy? I just can’t believe that it could happen …

Everyone remembers exactly where they were the moment they learned of the 9/11 tragedy.

I was in Las Vegas at the Rio. I persuaded my customer and his 350 employees to let me do a …

Marianne Kaye has lived in Iowa her entire life, but in her career she just keeps moving. Kaye, 24, grew up in Des Moines and attended Valley High School, where she participated in the school …