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At first glance, the Fair World Gallery at 116 Fifth St. in West Des Moines doesn’t look much looks much like any other shop in Valley Junction. It has a soothing décor, and sells art, …

A Spencer-based bank holding company is combining its lending capacity with some local talent to start a new operation in West Des Moines.

Northwest Financial Corp. plans to open Northwest Bank, an office of Northwest …

These days, the favorite magazine around Kemin Foods’ offices is a breezy little item named Optometry – The Journal of the American Optometric Association. Why? Because a recent issue of that periodical reported on a …

Des Moines Water Works listened to concerns about building a new dam on the Raccoon River, and now plans to propose what might be a first-of-its-kind design—part rock rapids, part inflatable gates.

Though the focus …

Are you in over your head financially? No problem. Just file for bankruptcy.

That sure seems to be the prevailing philosophy in Iowa, as well as the rest of the country. Through the first four …

I suffered a minor foot injury the other weekend during the Drake Relays. No, it wasn’t from running, but from donning a Velcro suit at an amusement outside the stadium, in which participants throw their …

On a recent Saturday, 25 associates of Iowa State Bank put their philosophy of community reinvestment into practice. Perhaps a bit leery of what they were getting into, they descended upon a construction site on …

Dear Mr. Berko:  I have $20,000 with which to speculate. I’d like to own three or four Internet stocks that have good profit potential and are trading way down from their highs of four years ago.  Can …

Meetings, we’ve got meetings. Why?  Another meeting? About what? We meet, but no one decides anything. Nothing happens. We met last week and all anyone did was gripe.

I hear more complaints about meetings than I …

Jennifer Mann focused more on finding a job after high school than taking college classes, but that changed when she started working at Wells Fargo Financial and had the opportunity to have her education paid …