Archive for June 2008

Iowa Health – Des Moines has announced that the new hospital being built in West Des Moines will not be named after Michael R. Myers. The Myers’ family was released from a $15 million pledge …

Gov. Chet Culver responded promptly to Winnebago Industries Inc.’s announcement of planned layoffs with assistance from Iowa Workforce Development. Culver’s goal is to mitigate any economic strains that the laid-off employees and their communities might …

Iowa Health – Des Moines’ Iowa Health Foundation has released the Michael R. Myers Trust from its $15 million naming pledge for a new hospital in West Des Moines.

The gift was originally announced in …

MSNBC reported that worker productivity was higher than it was expected to be over the first three months of the year. The Labor Department earlier had estimated worker productivity for the first quarter of 2008 …

Orders for manufactured goods rose 1.1 percent in April, a sign that the industry could pull out of its recent slump, the Associated Press reported. This follows a 1.5 percent increase in March after orders …

The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) released a draft of administrative rules that will accompany the statewide smoking ban scheduled to go into effect July 1. The Smokefree Air Act, signed into law by …

In times of economic hardship, a job surplus seems contradictory. However, a New York Times article reported that unlike many other states across the country, Iowa has a surplus of jobs. In a survey conducted …

Moving day continues for some Polk County workers, who began moving the first of seven offices to their new location, Polk Country River Place, located at 2309 Euclid Ave. The 144,000-square-foot building, which used to …

The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded grants to two Iowa airports totaling $1,353,912. The funds will facilitate various airport improvement projects, including $1,279,188 to Des Moines International Airport to construct a runway. The other allocated …