Archive for May 2016
Teaching for the Workplace to be offered in June
Teachers can get an inside look at the hottest careers for their students through Teaching for the Workplace this summer. The program, coordinated by DMACC Business Resources, will take place June 20-23 in Pella. The …
Read MoreLightEdge Solutions signs security deal with IBM, plans Omaha data center
Altoona-based LightEdge Solutions has signed a deal with IBM for a virtual security operations center that will be IBM’s only such operation in the MIdwest, LightEdge CEO Jim Masterson said in an interview following the …
Read MoreTransportation Improvement Program draft available for public comment
The Iowa Department of Transportation presented the Iowa Transportation Commission with a draft Fiscal Year 2017-2021 Iowa Transportation Improvement Program on Tuesday. The program reflects Iowa’s multimodal transportation system through inclusion of investments in aviation, …
Read MoreNatural Grocers plans expansion into eastern Iowa
The Gazette: A Denver, Colo.-based grocery store chain is planning to expand into eastern Iowa. Natural Grocers, which sells organic and natural foods, has new stores planned for Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Cedar Falls. “We …
Read MoreWaukee is still growing
Waukee added 4,155 residents between 2010 and 2015, according to the results of the city’s special census, boosting the official population to 17,945, a 30 percent increase from 13,790 in 2010. In 2005, Waukee had …
Read MoreFollow tweets from the Partnership D.C. trip
IBM cybersecurity expert in Des Moines: Firewalls aren’t enough anymore
Then they should realize this: Firewalls aren’t enough anymore, he added. An…Read More
NOTEBOOK: Skywalk or long jump from Dwell to Hubbell Tower?
Hubbell Realty Co.’s Dwell apartment building is under construction at Ninth and Mulberry streets, right across the street from the Des Moines Social Club and virtually in the shadow of Hubbell Tower Apartments, the company’s …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: The next bubble? We’re blind
I asked a bubble related question to the panel at the CFA Society Iowa dinner, which was moderated by Jim McCaughan, CEO of Principal Global Investors.
After much of the night had been spent talking …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Iowa provides culture shock for these Southern transplants
The new director for the city of Des Moines Civil and Human Rights Department and his bride have had some culture shock since their move here in October.
Joshua Barr’s wife, Lorena, is from Colombia, …
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