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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 …

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Nov. 10: TechBrew AM featuring Kreg Tool

Host: Technology Association of Iowa
About: At TechBrew AM, TAI President Brian Waller will conduct a casual interview with John Bertrand, vice president of information technology for Kreg Tool Co., who will share his favorite …

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Judge: Regents did not violate Iowa law when they met privately with Harreld

Des Moines Register: Members of the Iowa Board of Regents did not violate state law when they met privately with an applicant whom they later hired as president of the University of Iowa, a Polk County …

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Cruz blocking Iowa ag secretary’s nomination for USDA job

Radio Iowa: The Texas senator who won Iowa’s 2016 presidential caucuses has placed a hold on Iowa Ag Secretary Bill Northey’s nomination for a federal job. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is blocking a vote in the …