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MPO offers grants for ‘complete streets’

The Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is offering grants of up to $15,000 for projects that make area streets safer and easier to navigate for drivers, walkers, bicyclists, transit riders and people who use …

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TAI offers Experience Iowa Technology, TechBrew today in Des Moines

Look for a double dose of tech talk today. The Technology Association of Iowa will offer students a chance to learn from tech companies through Experience Iowa Technology. The free program introduces students to Iowa’s …

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Gannett, moving to complete buyouts, buys Journal Media Group Inc. for $280 million

Gannett Co. Inc., owner of The Des Moines Register, plans to buy the owner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for $280 million. Journal Media Group shareholders would receive $12 per share in cash should they …

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Event Oct. 14: Holmes Murphy reputation and crisis management workshop

Holmes Murphy & Associates Inc. will host a series of workshops for business leaders on how to minimize the impact on reputations during a crisis or other adverse event. Attendees will leave with a strategy …

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Two Iowa companies advance in national Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge

For the second consecutive year, Iowa will be represented in the final four of the American Farm Bureau Federation Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge — this time by two companies: AccuGrain LLC, based in Rose Hill, and …

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Deere enters joint venture to expand precision ag offerings

Deere & Co. announced this morning that it has entered into an agreement with DN2K, a Colorado-based data and software firm, to form SageInsights. The joint venture will initially serve the agriculture industry with further…
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Newton a top small town

Newton is among the “Top 10 affordable small towns where you’d actually want to live,” according to a ranking by housing website Realtor.com. The list was based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s micropolitan areas, which are…
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ia magazine unveiled

The fourth edition of ia magazine was unveiled last night at the University of Iowa John and Mary Pappajohn Education Center in downtown Des Moines.   To read the full issue, visit our website at www.iapublication.com.   Here are…
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Consumer watchdog seeks partial ban on arbitration clauses

Banks and credit card companies may not force customers to sign away their legal rights to take part in class-action lawsuits, under an early-stage U.S. government proposal that is likely to draw ire from Wall …

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Partnership to honor Economic Impact winners

The Greater Des Moines Partnership has named this year’s winners of the Celebrate Business and Economic Impact Awards, who will be honored at a luncheon Nov. 4.


The Economic Impact Awards honor the influence the companies have…