Archive for November 2017
Ames National reports increase in net income
Bank holding company Ames National Corp. reported net income for the quarter ended Sept. 30 of $3.9 million, or 42 cents per share, compared with $3.8 million, or 41 cents per share, in the year-ago …
Read MorePostal Service workers in Iowa picket to protest job cuts
U.S. Postal Service workers have taken to the sidewalks to protest job cuts at Des Moines’ main post office and other postal facilities across the country. About 100 people, consisting of postal workers, customers, teachers …
Read MoreIowa law school graduates are better at passing the bar
Des Moines Register: More than three-fourths of law school graduates who want to become an Iowa lawyer passed the state’s bar exam this year — significantly higher than 2016, Iowa Judicial Branch data show.…
Read MoreLongtime Ames chemistry teacher named state Teacher of the Year
Ames High School chemistry teacher Aileen Sullivan is the 2018 Iowa Teacher of the Year, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Wednesday. Sullivan, 43, has taught at Ames High School since 1996 and is known for challenging …
Read MoreCongress rarely in a rush to harvest a farm bill on time
Successful Farming reports that agriculture leaders in Congress are assembling the 2018 farm bill in private and have spoken more about the timeline for the legislation than about its contents or how they will resolve expensive …
Read MoreGrowth in Iowa women-owned businesses still lagging
Iowa still ranks among the bottom 10 states in the nation for economic clout of women-owned companies, according to the seventh annual State of Women-Owned Businesses Report released Wednesday.
Iowa is ranked 44th among the states in …
How to select the right building solution
BY MIKE TOUSLEY, Executive Vice President & General Manager, The Weitz Company
The decision of whether to construct a building from the ground up or to renovate an …
Read MoreConfluence adds Omaha office
After a 15-year presence on Nebraska jobs, Des Moines-based Confluence landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm is opening an office in Omaha that will be under the direction of Dolores Silkworth, according to a …
Read MoreStorageMart buys Waukee Storage Masters
StorageMart picked up its 21st Greater Des Moines location when it paid the local owners of Waukee Storage Masters a total of $5 million for adjoining properties on Northeast Ventura Drive. According to a release …
Read MoreR&R’s Kaduce receives national recognition
Adam Kaduce, a vice president at R&R Real Estate Advisors, is a Real Estate Forum magazine Fifty Under 40 honoree for 2017. The commercial real estate publication said Kaduce’s “dedicated and strategic approach to handling …
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