Archive for October 2012
Bravo accepting grant proposals for capital campaigns
Bravo Greater Des Moines is now accepting proposals for its fiscal year 2013 Capital Campaign and Capital Project Grants.
Applicants must be nonprofit arts, cultural and heritage organizations that have entered into 28E hotel/motel tax …
Read MoreBERKO: Fooled by Facebook, or a fool?
Dear Mr. Berko:
I bought 500 shares of Facebook Inc. the day it came out and paid $44.25 a share because I didn’t have the contacts to buy it at the $38 initial public offering …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Bill Stowe
For more than a decade, residents of Greater Des Moines looked to Bill Stowe, assistant manager for the city’s public works and engineering department, for advice on driving in the city during winter storms. Stowe’s …
Read MoreDon’t get burned
Businesses need to have a strategy for archiving and organizing electronic documents – such as emails – so they can be easily retrieved in the event of litigation.
Many don’t – and are setting themselves …
Read MoreTHE ELBERT FILES: Ain’t no building old enough
My neighbor Kent Mauck has a talent – his wife calls it a curse – for restoring older, underappreciated commercial buildings.
By underappreciated, I mean buildings that no one else wants, like the two-story storefront …
Read MoreGUEST OPINION: Rural broadband access in jeopardy
When President Obama visited Iowa last summer, he spoke of the importance of strengthening our rural communities and encouraging economic development. One of the keys to this effort is access to the Internet and other …
Read MoreGITOMER: What are you really selling?
A guy walks into a hardware store and says to the clerk, “I need a drill.”
Clerk says, “Well, not really. You want to make a hole.”
If you’re in retail and your customer comes …
Read MoreMCLELLAN: The social disconnect
I get that everything happens in phases, and we typically know we need to do something for a long time before we actually do it. For many businesses, that seems to be the phase we’re …
Read MoreProject update:Southeast Connector
Cost:
$50 million from Southeast 14th Street to Southeast 30th Street; approximately $8 million from Southeast Ninth Street to Southeast 14th Street.
Timeline:
The expansion to Southeast 30th Street is expected to be completed by …
Casting for tech workers, firms
Silicon Valley, meet Silicon Prairie.
That was the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s focus during a mid-September trip to California that included two events in San Francisco and one in Palo Alto. The message: There are …
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