Archive for November 2017
So far, Hy-Vee ‘crushing’ Des Moines’ first sports bar
Todd Millang, the commercial real estate broker who teamed with Hubbell Realty Co. to buy and renovate Johnny’s Hall of Fame in 2006, said he is trying to find an operating model to compete with …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Michele Keenan
Michele Keenan was hired as the first paid executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Greater Des Moines in July 2016. Formed in the early 1980s, the nonprofit had until last year …
Read MoreBusiness Record 12-1-17
A community mental health resource
NAMI Greater Des Moines’ first paid director explores connections with business community
Focus: Retail
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Read MoreGuest Opinion: Rural economic development drives Iowa’s growth
BY ALLAN DUFFE | Board director for the Central Iowa Power Cooperative
Economic development is critical for the success of Iowa. It takes on an even greater importance when dealing with the state’s rural economy.…
Read MoreNewsmaker Q&A: Kim Foltz
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Iowa is hiring between 250 and 300 additional employees in Iowa in preparation for accommodating some 215,,000 added Medicaid members beginning Dec. 1, following the departure of AmeriHealth Caritas as one …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Thorne decries ‘insult’
We reported recently that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had booted respected University of Iowa occupational health researcher — and EPA grant recipient — Peter Thorne from the EPA science advisory panel he led.
Now …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Hickman: Never stop learning
I heard Lea Hickman, a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group and former product lead for Adobe’s Creative Cloud, give the keynote at the Technology Association of Iowa’s 10th annual Women of Innovation Awards at …
Read MoreFretting the internet
With few exceptions, retail is trending hot and cold in Greater Des Moines, or, as developer Mike Whalen describes it, the industry is a little “schizo” right now.
Outlets of Des Moines, a development Whalen …
NOTEBOOK: 30 minutes with Douglas Brinkley
Noted conservationist and presidential historian Douglas Brinkley was in town Nov. 14 to deliver Drake University’s Bucksbaum Lecture, and he proved quite a fan of Iowa and its history of high-profile efforts.
It was good …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Forbes: Midwest needs more ag tech investment
Former presidential candidate Steve Forbes stopped by Prairie Crest Capital’s Ag Tech Investor Conference in Des Moines on Nov. 9 to offer thoughts to 150 national ag leaders.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t make it, but our …
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