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Art shouldn’t be intimidating. But for many people, it is.
Alexa McCarthy, the new executive director of the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation, said a goal of hers is to make art accessible to …
Ryan Crane considers his work with One Iowa to be the “coolest first job out of college and the coolest first job in Des Moines I could ever have.”
It was also Crane’s first experience …
Skylar Mayberry-Mayes gives a lot of credit to the board game Monopoly for initiating his career in finance and real estate. He said he wasn’t planning to attend college as he prepared to graduate from …
Former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, along with his wife, Ruth, founded the Harkin Institute in 2013 as a nonpartisan policy nonprofit focused on labor and employment, people with disabilities, retirement security, and wellness and nutrition. …
Jill Wilkins’ home office wall, decorated with framed posters from Broadway shows, is a reminder of the influence the arts have on her life. Her parents are both artists, which drew her to dance, music …
2023 was so disastrous for U.S. pork producers that analysts were left to predict that 2024 couldn’t possibly be any worse.
Tyson’s announcement that it will soon close a Perry processing plant, putting nearly 1,300 …
April Schmaltz never lived in the same place for long while growing up.
She was born in Tennessee, spent most of her childhood in a small community called Buhler, Kan., and moved to Texas when …
Jon Rozenfeld arrived in Des Moines on Jan. 8 to a brown, dry landscape to begin his new role as UnityPoint Health’s market president. By the next day, the scenery looked a little different – …
When Iowa artist Julia Franklin was a child growing up in north Texas, she would melt crayons on the hot lightbulb of a bedroom lamp.
She recalls this distinctly because she uses wax in her …
Data in the 2020 One Economy report tells a story about the disparities Black residents in Polk County face. For example, in 2019, Des Moines was named the 10th-best city for business and careers; however, …
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