Archive for October 2005

With football season in full swing and basketball just around the corner, thousands of University of Iowa fans turn to the television or radio for game-time action from Larry Morgan, the voice of the Hawkeyes. …

With football season in full swing and basketball just around the corner, thousands of University of Iowa fans turn to the television or radio for game-time action from Larry Morgan, the voice of the Hawkeyes. …

Often referred to as an elevator speech or a cocktail commercial, I named it a 30-second personal commercial because I felt you would understand it based on all the personal commercials you’ve seen on television. …

Magazine editors love to sit around dreaming up lists. When we agree with the results, we consider them brilliant. When they make us look bad, we assume they’re deeply flawed. Either way, these lists do …

I usually don’t let telephone solicitation calls go quite that far, but the hook was intriguing enough that I listened to a representative of a Des Moines-based research company that wanted to pay me to …

The credit union movement’s social mission of “people helping people” was born in the late 1800s, when European farmers began pooling their money and lending it at low interest rates to others in need. The …

Late into the evening, when most of Greater Des Moines is resting up for the busy day ahead, some others are burning the midnight oil.

Aldrich Cabildo could be spinning tunes at a wedding reception, …

Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie announced at the Wellness Council of Iowa’s annual conference in September that he wants Des Moines to become a “Well City.”

Kerry Juhl, the executive director of the Wellness Council …

Determining how much cash a financial institution should put load into its automated teller machines is a tricky business. Put in too little, and the machine will “run dry” and require an emergency cash run. …

Surasee “See” Rodari left the big city life of Bangkok, Thailand, as a high school student to explore the United States. But instead of finding himself among the tall buildings and bright lights of a …