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Airlines eye bigger profits, warned to watch staff costs

Airlines should watch staff cost even as they enjoy another year of higher profits based on the lowest oil prices since 2003, Reuters reported, citing analysts.


Mike Corley, head of Mercatus Energy Advisors, said at the Airline…
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1000 Friends of Iowa announces awards

1000 Friends of Iowa will present its 2015 Best Development awards during a public event from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jan. 21 at the Iowa Capitol. The awards showcase projects that recognize connections between …

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BNIM honored for ‘invisible’ renovation of AEG headquarters

BNIM architects has received the American Institute of Architects’ Honor Award for Architecture for its work on the $35 million renovation of American Enterprise Group Inc.’s iconic headquarters in downtown Des Moines. The project is referred to …

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Tacopocalypse won’t open store in Coralville after all

Des Moines-based Tacopocalypse will no longer be opening a location in Coralville, the Corridor Business Journal reported. The restaurant was scheduled to open in a roughly 2,300 square-foot store at 920 E. Second Ave. late …

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Mercy’s pediatric trauma center recognized for all levels of care

Mercy Medical Center – Des Moines has been formally recognized by the American College of Surgeons as a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center. Mercy’s Adult Trauma Center had already gained that recognition. The verification process …

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Event Jan. 20: DNR commissions to hold joint meeting

The Iowa Environmental Protection Commission and the Iowa Natural Resource Commission will have a joint meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday on the second floor of the Wallace State Office Building. The commissions will discuss their …

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Uneven arithmetic of wealth: 62 = 3.6 billion

The wealth divide between the world’s richest and poorest is turning into a Grand Canyon, judging by a report today from Oxfam, MarketWatch reported.


Last year, just 62 individuals held wealth equivalent to the amount owned…
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Report: Technology could cost world economy 5 million jobs by 2020

Technology can be a wonderful thing, but advances will cost the world’s leading economies 5 million jobs by 2020, the World Economic Forum said in a report released today and reported by CNN Money.


Developments in…
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Natural Grocers store to open Feb. 9 in Clive

Natural Grocers will open its first Iowa location on Tuesday, Feb. 9, in Clive. The store, in a new building on the former Dahl’s site at 8650 Hickman Road, is slated to open at 8 a.m. …

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Women architects featured at new Iowa Center for Architecture

The Iowa chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Iowa Architectural Foundation will have an open house from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 11 to unveil the Iowa Center for Architecture, which is …