Archive for March 2005

Tami Thompson has no qualms about hanging up on telemarketers. Despite having registered each of her telephone numbers about a year ago on the national Do Not Call Registry, the at-home business owner still gets …

For Jim Achey, who got his start in the printing business more than 50 years ago, the industry has changed in ways that he never imagined and “mostly for the better,” he said.

For the …

Mark Ishikawa likes the idea of getting Midwest-quality employees for far less than “Silicon Valley prices.”

The CEO of BayTSP Inc., which makes anti-piracy software for the motion picture industry as well as products for …

RDG Planning & Design last year discarded its old name, Renaissance Design Group, but stuck with an abbreviation that already was well-known in Greater Des Moines.

Still, the company, which started out simply as an …

I went to buy some furniture the other day. No one seemed to care.

I walked into four furniture stores. I was willing to spend a relatively substantial amount of money on some overpriced furniture, …

The remaining Vision Iowa board funds were handed out last month, but the program is not over. Now, a new chairperson, Andy Anderson, will have his turn to put his stamp on the program. Anderson, …

Diane Crookham-Johnson didn’t need a Gallup Poll to tell her a top concern of working parents is balancing their family and work lives. All she had to do was listen to the alarm clocks going …

This isn’t exactly a golden moment in history for chief executive officers. We have one of the most prominent CEOs of our time just getting out of prison; the top man at Boeing Co. being …

It was a weird week.

It started with a scary white supremacist group called the National Alliance leaving its calling cards on the lawns of a racially and ethnically diverse Des Moines neighborhood. The fliers, …

Today a child will run away from home because of being abused. Tonight a single mom will be hospitalized with no one to care for her 4 year old child. When night falls in Des …