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R&R buys former golf range and adjacent land in Urbandale

R&R Realty Group paid $4.5 million last week for 81.5 acres at an Urbandale intersection with development promise.


For the past 19 years, a swath of the site has been occupied by Longview Golf Centre.…
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Registration open for Iowa Student Loan scholarship contest

Registration is open for a scholarship that offers Iowa high school seniors a chance to receive $2,000 for college while learning important financial literacy skills. In addition, each recipient’s high school will receive a corresponding …

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FBL Financial reports third-quarter earnings

FBL Financial Group Inc. today reported net income for the third quarter of 2015 of $26.7 million, or $1.06 per share, down from $30.2 million, or $1.21 per share, for the third quarter of 2014. …

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New Year’s Eve grand opening for Max Wellman’s downtown jazz club

Noce, a jazz and cabaret lounge planned in downtown Des Moines, will have its grand opening with a “Wild Party,” a Jazz Age-themed New Year’s Eve celebration featuring dancers, a big band, singers, burlesque and …

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Event Nov. 18: Workshop on Agile Content Planning in Action

The Iowa chapter of the American Marketing Association will host a workshop on “Agile Content Planning in Action” on Nov. 18 from 2:30 to 5 p.m. at Jasper Winery. The workshop will feature Jeff Julian,…
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This is no hot air: how to profit from climate change

CNN Money reports that companies that have been aggressive about reducing carbon emissions since 2012 have outperformed those that are merely blowing hot air about reducing their carbon footprints, according to a report by asset manager…
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We picked food over clothes in the fourth quarter

We apparently were either rummaging through the closet for last year’s summer clothes, bargain hunting or going slightly threadbare in the fourth quarter of the state’s fiscal year, according to sales tax data released today…
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Meredith to launch Fit Pregnancy and Baby magazine

Meredith Corp. announced today that it will launch Fit Pregnancy and Baby beginning with the February 2016 issue. Fit Pregnancy and Baby will cover a range of topics important to this audience of millennial women and new …

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Deere acquires Precision Planting’s equipment business

Deere & Co. has signed definitive agreements to acquire the Precision Planting LLC equipment business from The Climate Corp. The agreements represent the industry’s first and only near real-time in-cab wireless connection to John Deere …

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Office services company Marco acquired

Marco Inc., a St. Cloud, Minn.-based company that provides copiers and printers, business information technology services, phone systems and other office services to more than 25,000 customers in the Midwest, has been bought by a …

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