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D.M. wants to know whether it is meeting parks and recreation needs

Several thousand Des Moines residents should expect to hear from the ETC Institute of Olathe, Kan., in the next few days as the company attempts to gauge citizen satisfaction with parks and recreational opportunities. The …

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United Way announces 2015-16 leadership

  Jim Israel

Retired Deere & Co. executive Jim Israel will chair the 2015 United Way Campaign, United Way of Central Iowa announced today.

Israel, formerly president of Deere’s Worldwide Financial Services Division, will lead…
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Cash sales decline in housing market

Cash sales accounted for nearly 32 percent of all homes sales in May, a drop of 3 percentage points from May 2014 and marking the 29th consecutive month of year-over-year declines, real estate analytics firm …

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DHS announces winning Medicaid managed care organizations

The Iowa Department of Human Services has issued a notice of intent to award contracts to four bidders for Gov. Terry Branstad’s Medicaid Modernization initiative. The bidders announced Monday are Amerigroup Iowa Inc., AmeriHealth Caritas …

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Bird flu cost Iowa 8,500 jobs — Farm Bureau study

Bird flu in Iowa this year cost the state nearly 8,500 jobs, some of which may not be recovered, according to a study for the Iowa Farm Bureau by Decision Innovation Solutions of Urbandale. In addition to …

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Iowa DOT enters traffic data partnership with Waze

The Iowa Department of Transportation has teamed up with a smartphone navigation app developer to enable motorists to access and update real-time traffic data.


The DOT today announced a data-sharing partnership with Waze, a crowdsourced…
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Iowa homes selling at fastest pace in five years

Iowa home sales were 12 percent higher in July that a year ago, and sales are occurring at the fastest pace in five years, the Iowa Association of Realtors said today. Contracts to buy homes …

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2.2 percent hike proposed in workers’ comp rates

Iowa workers’ compensation premiums would increase an average of 2.2 percent in 2016 under a proposed increase filed last week with the Iowa Insurance Division. The filing proposes an overall average increase of 2.7 percent …

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Homebuilder confidence highest in nearly a decade

The National Association of Home Builders said today that its monthly measure of the mood of its membership showed a modest improvement this month, just enough to boost its housing market index 1 point to …

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IWLC’s Invest in She seeking investors for Des Moines event

Invest in She – Des Moines, a live pitch event designed for female entrepreneurs and sponsored by Iowa Women Lead Change, has announced its first three investors and is seeking more investors to participate in…