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Mary Greeley plans partnership with Marshalltown hospital

Ames Tribune: Mary Greeley Medical Center of Ames plans to enter into a partnership with a Marshalltown hospital and LHP Hospital Group Inc., a privately owned health-care organization, to expand health care services to both Marshall …

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VIDEO: See MidAmerican’s tallest wind turbine tower rise 379 feet in 6-minute time-lapse video

MidAmerican Energy has released a time-lapse video that shows the construction of its first concrete wind-turbine tower — the company’s tallest at 379 feet — in 6 minutes. Construction of the Adams County tower took 31 weeks.…
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Analysis ranks top-performing Iowa stocks

Casey’s General Stores Inc. was the top-performing Iowa-based stock over the past five years, according to a recent analysis by financial technology company SmartAsset. Looking at the period between January 2011 and March 2016, SmartAsset’s …

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Water Works nearly doubles legal fund for lawsuit against 3 counties

The Des Moines Water Works board on Tuesday voted to spend another $650,000 on its federal lawsuit against three northwest Iowa counties over nitrate pollution from drainage districts. That is on top of the $700,000 …

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Vilsack to Iowa leaders: ‘Think big’ on water quality

     A small group went to meet U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack while visiting Washington D.C. during the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s annual trip. The group wanted to talk to the former Iowa governor…
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Partnership’s intern program returns with new name

The Greater Des Moines Partnership’s internship program, formerly Do More in the City, has been renamed Seize the City. The program will mix networking, community engagement and professional development. It will launch the program at an event…
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Wells Fargo offers its own mobile payments ‘Wallet’

Wells Fargo & Co. will enter the mobile payments market with Wells Fargo Wallet, which will be available later this summer to customers who download the bank’s app to their Android phones. Wells Fargo said …

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State to release stingless wasps to kill emerald ash borers

Here’s the buzz on how Iowa is going to fight the spreading and tree-killing emerald ash borer: by releasing wasps that kill the borers’ larvae, but don’t sting people. The tiny wasps, smaller than a …

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Survey: Millennials less likely to buy renters insurance

A new survey released by insuranceQuotes finds that millennials are most likely to rent their homes, but very few are covered by renters insurance. Sixty-six percent of 18- to 29-year-olds rent their homes, compared with …

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Blackbird proposes 29-story residential tower for former Younkers site

Blackbird Investments plans a 29-story mixed-use building in a vacant site once occupied by Younkers department store in downtown Des Moines.


The building would include 220 residential units that would include market-rate rental apartments and…