Archive for April 2006

Al Setka of the Great Ape Trust of Iowa listened to a podcast for the first time the other day, and his employer just started producing podcasts of its own. At iMed Studios in Ames, …

In December, when an intruder breached the security of two Iowa State University computers containing encrypted credit card numbers of athletics department donors and Social Security numbers of more than 3,000 university employees, it prompted …

As a young boy growing up on the family farm, Bob Berndt got a bad case of poison ivy after walking through the brush.

His father, who was always chewing on one weed or another, …

Lee Roy Porter knows he may pay as much as $10 each time someone clicks on an ad for his mortgage company, which appears when people search for keywords such as “Des Moines home refinancing” …

As recently as 15 years ago, the parents of a baby born at 24 weeks’ gestation and weighing about as much as an average T-bone steak or four sticks of butter held little hope for …

After 10 years of working in public accounting, Holly Olson decided she was ready for a change. A few years ago, she found what she was looking for at the Neighborhood Finance Corp. On March …

Dear Mr. Berko:

Is it possible to make money by using insider trading information, such as when Bill Gates sells a block of Microsoft stock? I know that insider buying and selling is first reported …

I had six things to do this past Saturday. One of them was to stop by the hardware store and get some picture hooks. I went to Blackhawk Hardware rather than Home Depot, because Blackhawk …

Sometimes you wonder if America’s power structure is just running on autopilot. Outrageous examples of bad management surface and we hear a string of people in well-paid, responsible positions say, “Gee, I didn’t really know …

Sarah Caldwell, called the “impresario of Boston opera by the Boston Globe, died the other day. Her death was an occasion for the opera world to remember an inspired, eccentric pioneer, the likes of which …