Archive for February 2011
Family practice
Mike O’Malley remembers when he started practicing law with his father, George O’Malley, and brother, Bernard O’Malley.
Now, as part of one of the founding families at the Connolly, O’Malley, Lillis, Hansen, Olson LLP law …
Read MoreA different kind of energy
Tim Dwight is nothing if not passionate. The former University of Iowa football player used to make people take notice of his speed on the gridiron. Twelve years ago, he outran everyone on the field …
Hays Cos. launches office in downtown Des Moines
In 1994, a group of executives left some of the largest insurance brokerage houses to launch what they believed was a better model for serving clients.
It looks as if they were onto something. Minneapolis-based …
Read MoreCalled to serve
Tom Moreland could have settled into a comfortable consulting career after selling Iowa Hospice, a start-up company he developed into one of the largest and fastest-growing hospice care providers in the state. Instead, the 32-year-old …
Program takes new look at health-care efficiency
Sometimes, just having someone else look at a problem can provide a whole new perspective – particularly if that person has an engineering degree.
That’s what health-care professionals at Iowa Methodist Medical Center are finding, …
Read MoreNothing pretty about this
William Van Orsdel may be insolvent, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this week by members of an investment group the Greater Des Moines businessman joined to build West Glen Town Center.
Van Orsdel and …
Read MoreMPO asks people to vote on passenger rail
Should the state of Iowa follow through with funding a passenger rail line from Chicago to Iowa City – and eventually to Des Moines?
That’s the question on the mind of officials at the Des …
Read MoreTax group tries restart with Tegeler
The Polk-Des Moines Taxpayers Association, now 90 years old, was showing signs of wear. It had 300 members back in the 1970s and ’80s, according to organization president Marc Ward, but the website now lists …
Record food prices could spark more unrest, inflation
Global food prices hit a record in January, and recent catastrophic weather around the world could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, Reuters reported.
Up for the seventh month in a …
Read MoreSurvey: Majority of Midwest firms foresee fewer layoffs
After two years of widespread downsizings in the region, the majority of Midwest companies foresee virtually no more staff cutbacks in the year ahead, according to a survey by Right Management Inc.
Right Management surveyed …
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