Archive for October 2018
Farm Bureau Health Plan to begin enrollment Nov. 1
Farm Bureau Health Plan announced it will start taking applications for individual coverage beginning Nov. 1. The Iowa Legislature earlier this year authorized the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation to offer the health plan benefit to …
Read MoreState programs help domestic violence survivors
The Iowa secretary of state has launched an initiative to connect survivors of domestic violence with state and local resources available to them. Safe at Home is an address confidentiality program that helps survivors of domestic violence, …
Read MoreMercy receives $250,000 grant from Variety
Mercy Foundation has received a $250,000 grant from Variety — the Children’s Charity to enhance care and services for children at Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines. Mercy Children’s Hospital & Clinics will use the grant to …
Read MoreBest Up and Coming business leader: Matt Glynn pushing the limits
Matt Glynn came to be a partner in Performance Marketing “accidentally,” he says, which is to say, a partnership wasn’t quite in his crystal ball when Glynn joined the company.
“As Kevin [Lentz, president] would …
Partnership dinner to feature venture capitalist Vance
Venture capitalist J.D. Vance will headline the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s annual dinner Jan. 17 at Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center.
Vance, who joined AOL founder Steve Case’s Revolution LLC in 2017, has been a …
Majority of Iowa Index stocks down in September
Only Casey’s General Stores Inc. recorded a double-digit stock price percentage gain in September, while most of the 22 companies with Iowa headquarters had modest price gains or declines last month.
Seven Iowa-based companies had …
A Closer Look: Nancy Mwirotsi
When Nancy Mwirotsi transitioned her girls’ dance class into a STEM space — studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics — for refugee students, she knew her group’s own funding model would have to live up …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Des Moines professionals not as likely to leave their jobs due to a bad commute
Some new research from Robert Half confirms a common bragging point for us in Greater Des Moines: We have one of the quickest and least-stressful commutes in the country. And twice as many Greater Des …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Are the media biased or is it you?
All of us in the the media have heard the criticism. We are too liberal. We are too conservative. We are from another planet, whose occupants see things differently. But the New York Times reports …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Health coach’s book looks at disease reversal through diet
A Des Moines health coach makes a good case for eating healthier as a path toward reversing chronic disease — particularly obesity and Type 2 diabetes — and in the process creating more sustainable communities. …
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