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Restaurants host benefit nights in support of Metro Arts Alliance

To recognize the 40th anniversary of Metro Arts Alliance, several Greater Des Moines restaurants will host benefit nights starting now through April 10 to raise funds for the organization. The benefit nights are a lead-in …

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Local media auction to help businesses, nonprofits

Local business owners and nonprofits will have a chance to purchase creative services and advertising space at a fraction of normal cost during the American Advertising Federation of Des Moines’ second annual Media Auction, scheduled …

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Hotel Pattee expands food service to High Trestle Trail

The Hotel Pattee in Perry has partnered with Flat Tire Lounge in Madrid to offer a new food option to users of the High Trestle Trail. The Frontier Shack, a food trailer named after a …

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Spike in sales of new houses missed the Midwest

Sales of new single-family homes rose 7.8 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 539,000 units from an upwardly revised January reading, according to newly released data by the U.S. Department of …

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Pomerantz to lead Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Iowa chapter

 

Melodee Pomerantz

The Iowa chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced that Melodee Pomerantz has been hired as its executive director. Pomerantz, who has more than 30 years of event planning and marketing experience, …

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Pomerantz to lead Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Iowa chapter

 

Melodee Pomerantz

The Iowa chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced that Melodee Pomerantz has been hired as its executive director. Pomerantz, who has more than 30 years of event planning and marketing experience, …

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UI helps improve response to earthquakes

The University of Iowa and the U.S. Geological Survey have developed a system to help save lives by characterizing fault lines within 24 hours of an earthquake.

 

The technique uses Global Positioning Satellite data. William Barnhart, …

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State of the city of Des Moines: Achieving, with a forecast of challenges

Des Moines City Manager Scott Sanders, a former budget director and still a finance specialist, left the 300 slides of line items in the city’s $537 million budget back at the office for today’s State …

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Voting open for Warren County Excellence in Business awards

Online voting is underway for the finalists in Warren County Economic Development Corp.’s annual Excellence in Business awards event. Click herefor more information on the finalists, and click here to vote. Ballots must be cast by 5 p.m. April …

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Ankeny wants input on public arts and cultural events

The city of Ankeny is asking residents to provide feedback on the kinds of public art and cultural events they would like to see in the city. An online surveyis available through March 31 or via a …