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Catch Des Moines tourism work gets two awards

Catch Des Moines was awarded two 2017 Iowa Tourism Awards for Outstanding Social Media Execution and Outstanding Niche Market Initiative in Sioux City last week at the annual Iowa Tourism Conference. Greg Edwards, president and …

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Overdue state taxes and refunds to earn higher interest in 2018

The Iowa Department of Revenue today announced that the annual interest rate for overdue taxes and refunds in 2018 will be 6 percent. The annual rate has not changed since 2010, when it was set …

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State launches ‘5210’ childhood obesity prevention campaign

The state of Iowa has launched a statewide initiative to combat childhood obesity. The campaign, called “5210 – Healthy Choices Count,” is a public-private partnership between the Healthiest State Initiative and the Iowa Department of …

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AmeriHealth Caritas withdraws from state Medicaid program

AmeriHealth Caritas Iowa announced today that it will withdraw from the Iowa Medicaid managed care program, IA Health Link, effective Nov. 30. The decision came following months of negotiations that yielded no agreement on contract …

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Ag loan approvals remain high while farm profits drop

Eighty-two percent of agricultural lenders reported a decline in farm profitability in the last 12 months, according to a joint survey by the American Bankers Association and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp. Despite the continued …

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Drake’s new athletic director ‘high-character leader’

Drake University today named Des Moines native Brian Hardin as its athletics director, following a national search. 

Hardin, who was a Drake Relays champion while at Valley High School and competed at the Relays at the university…
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A Closer Look: Sam Hoyle

Sam Hoyle moved to Des Moines to celebrate his marriage to his wife, Kaylie, whose family is from Ames. 

He figured they would stay nine months, then move to Chicago or one of the coasts. …

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Cashing in on micro-moments

Whitney Cox is on the phone, and she’s sharing a message she has given her own mother: 

If you want to succeed in small businesses — which Cox and many others call the “backbone of …

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Weathering the storm

With Marta Codina, you can’t avoid the observation that maybe she is one of those people who, like it or not, find themselves in the eye of the storm.

Wrought by human hands or Mother …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the November 3 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the November 3 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 …