Archive for September 2006

Cyndi Chen as been working for the betterment of her community for as long as she can remember. Now, after years of volunteer work, Chen is the first administrator of the new Division on the …

Dear Mr. Berko:

I’ve got to cash out early. I’m 55, can’t stand my job and my new 38-year-old boss is not a nice person. I have $442,000 in my self-directed 401(k), thanks to two …

Everyone wants to hire the BEST person for the job. I do too.

Here’s a concept: Hire an athlete. It may help you as an employer to make the right choice, or at least a …

It’s so hard to quantify quality. Especially when it comes to education.

At the college level, we try to motivate professors by requiring them to prove themselves in their field of specialization; publish or perish …

What people who know me well have long warned would happen has, in fact, come to pass. For a moment around 3 the other morning, I was convinced that the loud thump that awakened me …

Students and teachers alike are always excited, yet anxious, about the start of a new academic year. Grade school students pick out colorful backpacks, middle schoolers buy the latest jeans and high school students gear …

A few years ago, Bob Riley was thinking of slowing down, maybe retiring. Now, with the potential he sees for his company to add value to the biofuel industry, he can’t wait to get to …

Schaffer’s owner Kari Smith would have to sell a lot of $3 cups of coffee at the café she wants to include in her new store to cover an expense created by a recent ordinance …

Mandi Wimmer has watched the building on the corner of East Fourth Street and Grand Avenue develop over the past year as she drives to her office in the state Capitol. As the Drake University …

Des Moines appears to be destined to get a new hotel near the Iowa Events Center, but the completion date of such a facility is probably 2 1/2 years away.

“I’ll ask the Polk County …