Archive for January 2004
Investors prepare for Iowa earnings
As January draws to a close, Central Iowa’s publicly traded companies are preparing to report earnings and sales to Wall Street and Main Street. The following is a schedule of when companies based in Central …
Read MoreGerman beer hall opens in downtown
The Hessen Haus, located in the refurbished train depot at 101 Fourth St. in downtown Des Moines, opened Thursday to the sound of polka music by Barefoot Becky and the Ivanhoe Dutchmen while patrons dined …
Read More2003 Business Leadership Awards
BUSINESS LEADER OF THE YEAR: MARK OMAN
By Michael Lovell
In late June of last year, more than 2,000 people stood in a massive line at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc.’s West Des Moines campus, …
Have a bad day or a bad attitude?
People always blame their bad attitude on the day.
That’s boloney. What you’re really saying is, “I’ve let other people get to my attitude,” or “I’ve let other circumstances get to my attitude.” That’s a …
Runyan crafts campaigns for Farmland
Erika Runyan went to college intending to become a pharmacist. As a teen, she had worked for a pharmacy, and loved the job and interpersonal interaction. In the course of her studies at Drake University, …
Read MoreCredit Unions prep for 2004
The Iowa Credit Union League, which supports Iowa’s credit unions through education programs and efforts to lobby regulatory and political officials, has a number of projects and priorities lined up for the coming year. The …
Read MoreDes Moines’ animal spirits
As we’re writing this editorial, news has just broken that J.P. Morgan Chase had agreed to buy Bank One for $58 billion in stock.
Set aside for a moment the personal drama of James Dimon, …
Appearances can be deceiving
Only a father would do this: In 1988, mine carried a column I had written on the Iowa Caucuses in his pocket. It had been unfolded and refolded so many times that the creases bore …
Read MoreForecast hints at real estate upswing
Officials at Grubb & Ellis/Mid-America Pacific say though there is no general agreement on how quickly the economy will rebound or how strong the recovery will be, many signs point to improving real estate markets …
Read MoreGraduate degrees and disaster relief
Carol Grant rarely goes to the sites of national emergencies nowadays. She isn’t required to, and her job as executive director of the Central Iowa chapter of the American Red Cross keeps her busy.
In …