Archive for October 2005

When Entrepreneur magazine released its rankings last month of how friendly cities and states are toward small businesses, which placed Iowa dead last and Des Moines 36th out of 55 mid-size cities, there was more …

By the end of this month, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage employees will begin moving into the Mountain Meadows Building at its sprawling West Des Moines campus, more than two years after company officials sealed a …

Participants in this head-to-head job search won’t vie for an employment offer from Donald Trump, but their experience is bound to be memorable nonetheless.

On Sept, 14, the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Young Professionals Connection …

As business owners continue to wrestle with annual double-digit increases in health-care premiums, knowing how well their companies’ benefits compare with those of their competitors is increasingly important. Employers also want to know which benefits …

Tradition loves a go-getter. Someone who knows what he wants and goes after it. Someone with energy, confidence and focus. What a coup, to find a person we can turn loose on a challenge and …

Building a four-lane road through a developed city takes optimism. It also takes lots and lots of somebody’s money, but we can wait and talk about that five years from now when the spending will …

Those combines lumbering through amber fields every year about this time make for a nice pastoral image of Iowa, touting its traditional role as one of the world’s most important breadbaskets. Certainly that is true. …

Ever leave a tip? Sure you do. And most of the time, when you leave a tip, it’s based on the service or the quality that you perceive.

But tipping has changed. Everyone seems to …

Dear Mr. Berko:

My broker has recommended that I buy the 7.2 percent Ford Motor Co. bonds that will come due in June 2007 as a short-term, high-yield investment for an extra $40,000 that I …

Each weekday morning on AM 1700, disc jockeys Ahydee Urrieta and Antonio Aburto crank out hit music, discuss community issues with a variety of professionals, review the morning’s top news stories and take calls from …