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I have $34,000 to invest. I want to invest in a portfolio of very conservative stocks that pay good dividends. I am in the armed services and I may be in Iraq, …

Tammy Stapp didn’t become a nurse because it was her calling. Her mother, a former nurse, suggested the job, having observed that nurses can find work anywhere.

Stapp got a nursing diploma from Iowa Methodist …

Fast Company magazine recently announced the winners of its Fast 50 awards, which recognize “the doers and the dreamers, the truth tellers and the trendsetters.” The issue profiling the award winners recently hit newsstands and …

In 1917, a national tax-exempt organization – the Girl Scouts of the USA – began an operation designed to raise money so that it could continue to serve its members, local councils and communities. From …

Has anyone been as surprised as I have over the speed at which the Hanson family has been dumping shares of Winnebago Industries Inc., the motor home maker that Hanson-pere founded and the family rode …

For 20 years, Thomas C. Porter & Associates worked to help companies tell their current and potential customers who they are.

Now, with the public relations and advertising agency that bore his name sold, Thomas …

FBL Financial Group Inc., the insurer whose real estate transactions helped transform West Des Moines from a bedroom community to a location for many of Central Iowa’s largest companies, is undergoing a large change itself.…

With last year’s completion of the Iowa Highway 5 bypass project south of Des Moines, many Warren County residents believe that “growth will come eventually.”

That’s not soon enough for Rich Wilkey. The former Des …

The Greater Des Moines Partnership has launched an initiative it expects will bring hundreds of millions of additional dollars into the local economy. The best news, says Partnership officials: it won’t cost local businesses anything …

Three entrepreneurs are hoping to mop up the competition with a new company called Finish Line Floors, whose product replaces wax as a way to preserve and care for hard floors.

Dozens of businesses in …