Archive for June 2018
Mercy launches multidisciplinary clinic for lung cancer patients
Lung cancer patients in Central Iowa now have access to a multidisciplinary clinic allowing them to receive comprehensive treatment and support faster and more conveniently. The Mercy Lung Cancer Clinic opened to patients on Tuesday …
Read MoreWellmark Foundation seeks MATCH grant applications?
The Wellmark Foundation is accepting proposals for its Matching Assets to Community Health (MATCH) small grants until midnight Friday. The small MATCH grants are for up to $25,000 and must be matched at 50 percent. …
Read MoreTwo local theater instructors win Impact Awards
Teachers from Waukee and Indianola have won Impact Awards from Des Moines Performing Arts. David Decker, choreographer at Waukee High School for seven years, was honored after he was nominated by senior Danielle Schmaltz. “His holistic …
Read MoreTrade score: Biofuels win, China offers $70B, Mexico fights back
In the space of a day, Reuters pushed stories on three big developments in the world of international trade and the closer-to-home ethanol vs. oil spat.
Here’s what’s up:
President Donald Trump has indefinitely delayed a…Read More
Priming the pipeline of Iowa psychiatrists
During Dr. Larry Severidt’s 24 years of practicing family medicine in Manchester and Pella, neither Delaware nor Marion counties had even a single psychiatrist practicing there. Sadly, rural physicians in about two-thirds of Iowa counties …
Read MoreData dilemma
When Brad Dwyer founded Hatchlings Inc. in an Iowa State University dorm room in 2008, he couldn’t have predicted what the social media landscape would become.
Dwyer’s mobile games company requires a few basic permissions …
NOTEBOOK: In 1,000 feet, turn right at the … ‘insert paying business here’
I was reminiscing recently with a college journalist about how I used to have to print off my directions from MapQuest before heading out to an interview. Naturally, I was promptly reminded by a wiser, …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Sukup’s perks for workers include weeklong Hawaii trips
Sukup Manufacturing Co. reported a bit recently on the perks of working at the company — not a bad idea since is a tight workforce.
Sukup workers get a free turkey for Thanksgiving, free single …
NOTEBOOK: Gone with the wind
MidAmerican Energy exec Kathryn Kunert was just wrapping up a four-speaker news conference about a major renewable energy milestone at the utility when her speech blew off the lectern. “That is why we build wind” …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: ‘I got you a Ferrari’
Suzie Glazer Burt was recalling the other day how her father, then Drake University Board of Trustees Chairman Edward Glazer, hired Mick Ferrari as president of Drake University, then told her mother, “I just got …
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