Archive for May 2018
37 graduate from Youth Leadership Institute
A total of 37 students representing 21 schools graduated from Greater Des Moines’ Youth Leadership Initiative class. An initiative of the Greater Des Moines Partnership, the institute helps students learn leadership skills through mentoring and …
Read MoreUI Health Care receives $500,000 grant to provide telepsychiatry services to seniors
Elderly residents in 29 long-term care facilities in Iowa will be treated for mental illness by University of Iowa Health Care geriatric mental health specialists via telemedicine, through funding from a $500,000 grant from the …
Read MoreCentene subsidiary wins Medicaid contract for Iowa
St. Louis-based Centene announced that its subsidiary, Iowa Total Care, has been tentatively awarded a contract for Iowa’s privately managed Medicaid program, bringing the total number of administrators in the state to three, the Corridor …
Read MoreState Supreme Court provides grants for low-income legal assistance
The Iowa Supreme Court has approved $254,818 in grants to nonprofit programs that provide legal assistance to low-income Iowans with civil legal problems. The court awarded grants to 12 organizations throughout Iowa. The grants are …
Read MoreBusiness Record 5-25-18
Cities’ Young CEOs
It isn’t the most glamorous job, but young local CITY LEADERS are called to it
Focus: Municipal Governments
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Read MoreNOTEBOOK: What hue is your ewe?
When one of your co-workers lives where the streets are gravel and he happens to raise sheep, “ewe” never how a conversation might evolve.
That happened one day recently when I tried to compliment my …
NOTEBOOK: Outlets update
Every few weeks, it seems like we hear of another store opening at the Outlets of Des Moines in Altoona, the 300,000-square-foot retail center that came online in October. Lucky Brand, the denim apparel outfitter, …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: What’s a fair price for your company?
A quick glance through businesses for sale in Iowa shows scores available, ranging from a plumbing contractor to a motor sports company to several manufacturers (and many restaurants). You may be interested. But they’re asking …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Sights and sounds of DMDC2018
Houston on airport needs
High on the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s priority list while on a federal lobbying trip to Washington, D.C., was a near-doubling of the limit airports can charge for what is called …
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In case you missed it…
A brief look back at news from the past week on BusinessRecord.com
Going mobile
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Creating a …
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