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Global Insurance Symposium announces keynote speakers

One of Europe’s most influential thought leaders on digital transformation and insurance technology will keynote the Global Insurance Symposium April 24-26 in Des Moines. Robin Kiera, who hails from Hamburg, Germany, was recently named a …

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Holmes Murphy adds Dallas-based benefits group

Holmes Murphy & Associates announced it has added Employee Benefit Strategies Group, a Dallas-based benefit consulting group, to its team of benefits experts. The EBSG team members joining the West Des Moines-based insurance and benefits …

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Breakfast in Des Moines, 10th anniversary celebration in Kosovo

Kosovo this week celebrates its 10th anniversary of independence it won with the assistance of the Iowa National Guard, and Maj. General Timothy Orr, the Iowa National Guard’s adjutant general, will be in Kosovo Thursday …

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Feb. 21: Learn How to Make Quality Videos

Host: PRSA Central Iowa
About: By 2019, it is estimated that 80 percent of all internet traffic will be video. The problem? Most of us don’t know how to make quality videos. In this hands-on …

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Lower federal taxes for Iowans mean they’ll owe more to state

Cedar Rapids Gazette: State revenue experts now project Iowans will see their individual federal income taxes decrease by nearly $1.8 billion in the 2018 tax year. But the federal changes could mean Iowans will pay an …

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Meredith cuts 600 Florida jobs, will move work to Iowa-based CDS Global

Des Moines Register: Meredith Corp. will cut about 600 jobs at a Time Inc. customer service center in Florida in its first major move to consolidate the two businesses. Des Moines-based Meredith completed its $2.8 billion …

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Deere, Principal earn ‘most ethical’ recognition

Deere & Co. and Principal Financial Group Inc. have again been named among the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. Deere has received the award for all 12 years the institute has completed …

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Book club at Smokey Row focuses on conservation

Green Iowa AmeriCorps plans a four-session book club at Smokey Row in Des Moines, Clay & Milk reported. Green Iowa focuses on education and outreach to encourage conservation and sustainability. Green Iowa AmeriCorps began in 2009 …

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Pleasant Hill council to vote on development loan for former water park site

The Pleasant Hill City Council will have a public hearing when it meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on an agreement for the commercial and residential redevelopment of White Water University. Christensen Development plans to buy …

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Start your week — recommendations for what to read

Olympic events took up a lot of free time, but I still found some good reads to share with you from the weekend amid seeing Red Gerard, age 17, do fancy things on a snowboard …