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AMA Iowa event to highlight trends, challenges in the marketing industry

Today is the last day to take advantage of early-bird registration for the American Marketing Association Iowa’s “Iowa Experience” event. The Feb. 6 event will feature a packed agenda of local speakers who will discuss …
By BPC Staff | Jan 21, 2015
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Gallup: Health care costs and low wages are worries for U.S. families

Health care costs and lack of money or low wages rank as the most important financial problems facing American families, each mentioned by 14 percent of U.S. adults in Gallup’s annual poll. Higher-income families were more likely …
By BPC Staff | Jan 21, 2015
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Midwest cities at top and bottom of healthy cities list

The Midwest has one of the healthiest cities in the country, according to a new study. Unfortunately, it also has the unhealthiest one, National Real Estate Investor reported. A new survey by BetterDoctor.com ranked Minneapolis as the second healthiest …
By BPC Staff | Jan 21, 2015
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Southwest Ninth corridor plan review is Thursday

The city of Des Moines and Friends of SW 9th are hosting a review of a plan to improve the Southwest Ninth Street corridor at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Christ the King Church parish …
By BPC Staff | Jan 21, 2015
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Boys & Girls Clubs partner to ‘Feed the Future’

Starting Jan. 20, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa will partner with the Child and Adult Care Food Program to provide dinner five nights a week to members of the McCombs Boys and …
By BPC Staff | Jan 21, 2015
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ISU gets $1.9 million grant to study long-term relationships

The National Institute on Aging has given Iowa State University a $1.9 million grant to continue a study of relationships spanning four decades and three generations.

 

Begun in 1989, the study has involved more than 550 …
By BPC Staff | Jan 21, 2015
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Templeton Rye seeking mediation in fraud lawsuits

Des Moines Register: Two class-action lawsuits accusing Templeton Rye of consumer fraud are on hold for mediation, a sign that the embattled Iowa whiskey-maker could be looking to settle before trial. The company faces three class-action …
By BPC Staff | Jan 21, 2015
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Texas company applies to build oil pipeline in Iowa

A company based in Texas has asked the Iowa Utilities Board to approve its plans for a crude oil pipeline that would cross 18 Iowa counties, The Des Moines Register reported. The pipeline proposal has been controversial …
By BPC Staff | Jan 21, 2015
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Architects reported gains in billing activity in 10 of 12 months last year

The American Institute of Architects said today that its monthly index of billings reached 52.2 in December, up from 50.9 in November. The index was above 50, meaning an increase in billings, for 10 months …
By BPC Staff | Jan 21, 2015
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Utilities board approves ratemaking for MidAmerican’s Wind IX project

The Iowa Utilities Board on Tuesday issued an order that sets the conditions for MidAmerican Energy Co.’s next planned phase of wind energy development in Iowa. The order establishes an 11.5 percent rate of return on equity …
By BPC Staff | Jan 21, 2015