Iowa economy in a ‘very healthy’ zone

The Iowa economy showed modest improvement in June, according to a report today from Creighton University.

The Mid-America Business Conditions Index, which evaluates economic conditions in a nine-state region, scored Iowa at a “very healthy” 62.6, …

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Business Record 7-6-18

The Photo Issue
What business executives and leaders do after they leave the office.

Focus: CEO Personal Profiles after work 

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A nagging problem

For more than three decades, Des Moines has been the can-do city, reshaping and rebuilding its downtown and grabbing national attention for its efforts. In many of its neighborhoods, however, the city didn’t.

As if …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the July 6 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the June 15 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …

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Elbert: Encomium for a cat family

We had to put down Teeny, our 23-year-old feral cat, the other day.

She’d been with us since her mother showed up carrying three kittens across our backyard in 1995. The mother was a black …

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