Iowa pipeline battle moves back to the courtroom

By user | December 16, 2016 |
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Competing attorneys gave a district judge reasons Thursday why he should allow a controversial oil pipeline already buried underground in Iowa to remain intact, or invalidate the state authority used to take farm…Read More

Principal Global Investors names Halter as COO

By user | December 16, 2016 |
 

Pat Halter

Principal Financial Group has named Pat Halter chief operating officer for Principal Global Investors; he is currently CEO and senior executive director of Principal Real Estate Investors. Jim McCaughan remains CEO of …

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Iowa’s Rural Mainstreet Index falls

By user | December 16, 2016 |
Creighton University’s Rural Mainstreet Index for Iowa fell to 63.5 in December from 72.1 in November, but remained a regional high.


Anything above 50 is considered growth-positive.


Iowa’s farmland price index for December fell to 49.3 from…Read More

McLellan: Be findable

By user | December 16, 2016 |
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Whether you’ve had a website for a couple of decades or a couple of weeks, you built it so prospects could learn more about you, customers could communicate with you and potential employees could check …

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A Closer Look: Molly Phillips

By user | December 16, 2016 |
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When Molly Phillips arrived at Iowa Public Television in 1989, she was “just happy to have a job.”

Those days, she processed payments in the business office. Later she was director of communication and lobbied.…

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Getting around

By user | December 16, 2016 |

You undoubtedly have noticed downtown traffic is a mess. And we mean by foot, car or bike.

But it’s mess in the best possible sense, brought on by a boom unlike any of the several …

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