Archive for June 2008

Gov. Chet Culver announced today that the Iowa Power Fund Board has approved the first two projects to be funded by the Iowa Power Fund.

The University of Northern Iowa will receive $612,300, which its …

Leo Herrick, a longtime Marshalltown banker, has signed a definitive agreement on behalf of a group of local investors to acquire Pinnacle Bank in Marshalltown. The bank will remain locally owned and independently operated. Herrick …

Corn prices declined Thursday for the first time in 12 days as investors bet that a rally that culminated in record prices, prompted by the worst floods since 1993 in the Midwest, was overdone, Bloomberg …

Taxpayers affected by tornadoes and flooding will have additional time to file Iowa tax returns and pay Iowa tax without penalty and interest payments. The extended deadline is July 28 for returns and payments due …

Bondurant may still be a couple thousand people shy of seeing any major commercial development, but city leaders are setting the stage for that growth now.

In July, the city will close on two properties …

Northwest Bank and a Regency company have agreed to the appointment of a receiver to manage the completion and sale of a residential project in Urbandale.

James McClarnon, president of McClarnon Properties Inc., a real …

Oregon-based Lithia Motors Inc. has pulled the plug on an auto dealership under construction in Urbandale, a city official said today.

The company, which has acquired several metro-area automobile dealerships in recent years, planned a …

Mike LaFavore is resigning as editorial director of Meredith Corp.’s magazines to return to editorial consulting, a Meredith spokesman confirmed today.

Mediaweek reported yesterday that LaFavore told Meredith Publishing Group President Jack Griffin a month …