Archive for February 2012
BERKO: Everything’s coming up roses? Maybe, maybe not
Dear Mr. Berko:
My only stock market investment is $207,000 in several Fidelity mutual funds, which are in my company retirement plan. I’m 56 and single. I earn a decent living and have almost zero …
Read MoreRyko Solutions engineers a clean turnaround
Steven L’Heureux didn’t know anything about the car wash industry when the new owner of Ryko Solutions Inc. approached him a year ago, asking him to consider becoming the company’s CEO.
Though Grimes-based Ryko had …
Read MoreWhat it means…
Dwolla Corp. earlier this month raised $5 million in funding and made a commitment to stay in Des Moines.
The decision for Dwolla, a mobile-phone payment system founded by Ben Milne that currently completes more …
Read MoreMeet Mary Sellers
After a 60-day search process, Mary Sellers was named the new president of the United Way of Central Iowa, replacing Shannon Cofield, who announced she was stepping down in December. Cofield was president of the …
OUR VIEW: Optimism just might be justified
One can certainly have doubts about the reported improvement in the national unemployment rate. Everyone knows that the government’s official number is significantly lower than the “real” rate, which includes those Americans who are working …
An Equitable solution
Three 90-year-old boilers, each two stories tall and one belching fire into an iron heat chamber 35 feet below Locust Street, are just the kind of annoyance that keep Shawn Foutch interested in his job.…
Just a matter of engineering
Shawn Foutch is no stranger to challenging projects in Greater Des Moines.
For the last nine years, he has shepherded projects for Kirkham Michael & Associates Inc. consulting engineers as its Iowa project manager. Here’s …
Read MoreA CLOSER LOOK: Chris Proskey
Chris Proskey is a Long Island native who was drawn to Iowa State University’s College of Engineering. Not content to rest on that educational achievement, he later earned an M.B.A. at the University of Minnesota’s …
The Wallace Centers of Iowa
The Wallace Centers of Iowa have been around for only two years, but the nonprofit already has a large list of events and programs focused around its main mission of educating the public about local …
GUEST OPINION: ‘The female vision’ in the workplace
Women view life differently than men. No surprise, yet often we try to assimilate not only our views, but our behaviors and practices as well – particularly in the workplace.
At Chrysalis, this is a …
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