Archive for March 2010

Stein Mart Inc. will close its West Des Moines store this summer, following a 13-year run at 1600 Valley West Drive.

“Unfortunately, we will be exiting the market,” said Susan Datz Edelman, director of stockholder …

The U.S. Senate is expected to pass legislation today that would extend unemployment benefits and enact popular tax breaks, despite protests from conservatives who say it adds too much to the $12.5 trillion national debt, …

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose slightly to 6.6 percent in January, from a revised December rate of 6.5 percent, Iowa Workforce Development announced this morning. The state’s jobless rate was 5.2 percent for the …

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said today that the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing titled “A Fair Share for All: Pay Equity in the New American Workplace” on Thursday, in …

Americans aren’t exactly oozing confidence about their ability to retire, but their outlooks are improving.

The 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey, released by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, found that Americans’ confidence in their ability to …

We hope that you’re not betting on men’s college basketball. Or perhaps more important, that your staff isn’t. In fact, we hope that they don’t care at all.

$1.8 billion – that’s the amount of …

Here’s a look inside the expanded Emergency Department under construction at Broadlawns Medical Center.…

Gov. Chet Culver has directed Iowa Insurance Commissioner Susan Voss to initiate a stay on a rate increase on individual health insurance policies recently announced by Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

Wellmark has notified …

American International Group Inc. continues to cut itself down to size.

The company has agreed to sell a division to MetLife Inc. for $15.5 billion in its second divestiture of a non-U.S. life insurance unit …

Dave Nelson, a Des Moines native who most recently led a Wells Fargo & Co. bank in Minnesota, has been named president and CEO of West Bancorporation Inc. and chairman and CEO of West Bank, …