Archive for April 2018
Housing, music venue, river outfitter options for Des Moines’ Argonne Armory
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Iowa-grown relief from pain is coming
Iowa bioscience leader Chris Nelson is bringing his significant knowledge in growing and extracting custom health ingredients from botanicals to the emerging medical cannabis industry.
Nelson, the president and CEO of global nutritional company Kemin …
Business Record 4-6-18
Moving income in a positive direction
A Closer Look: Stephanie Chin
Focus:Legal Matters
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Read MoreA Closer Look: Stephanie Chin
Stephanie Chin’s path to the United Way of Central Iowa sounds just like the kind of journey you hear in Iowa: She knew someone with Iowa ties and then another someone, and she ended up …
Read MoreClean water champion
Susan Heathcote calls herself an optimist.
That would be an understatement.
She has spent more than 22 years as the nonprofit Iowa Environmental Council’s chief water policy staffer, arguing in a heavily agricultural state that …
NOTEBOOK: Evans: Governor wrong to think silence will work
Here we go again.
The ink is barely dry on the $1.75 million check the taxpayers of Iowa had to write last fall to settle a sexual-harassment lawsuit won by an employee of the Iowa …
NOTEBOOK: In the arena, there is no law
If you thought you had seen every possible gyration of pimped-out vehicles, I might be one-up on you from my recent road trip to Houston last week. (An easy 14-hour curb-to-curb jaunt from Ankeny, by …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Endow Iowa tax credit rewards giving
Here’s a law everyone can get behind: the Endow Iowa Tax Credit.
Legislators in 2003 started a tax break program that allows credits of 25 percent of a charitable donation made through one of Iowa’s …
NOTEBOOK: In case you missed it…
In case you missed it…
A brief look back at news from the past week.
Entrepreneurs wary on economy
Kauffman Foundation reports that entrepreneurs are bullish on their businesses, but wonder about U.S. economy. Learn …
ABA: Farm lending rose nearly 6 percent in ’17
U.S. farm banks increased agricultural lending by nearly 6 percent, or $5.9 billion, to $106 billion in 2017, the American Bankers Association reported. Nonperforming loans at the 1,847 banks fell to a pre-recession level of …
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