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Believe it or not, musicians are business people, too. They provide services and sell products, and to get a gig, they have to persuade the venue’s owner that their music will attract people who spend …

Five years from now, a significant portion of the nation’s telephone traffic could be carried via the Internet instead of over traditional wires, and that could mean big things for Mediacom Communications Corp.

Greater Des …

What does it take to step out of your comfort zone?

For Lisa Boomershine, a Drake University senior who is white, it meant stopping her car on a snowy evening to pick up a black …

Porter & Associates, an advertising and public relations company, has been sold to a group consisting of an employee, two small business owners and an outside investor in a move that promises to take the …

When StageWest began in the mid-1990s, its leaders wanted to create a theater company that would exclusively present contemporary shows. Today, it is doing that and more by putting on such edgy productions as “Hedwig …

Steve Little, whose Winston’s Pub & Grille Restaurant on the skywalk level of 601 Locust St. has been a popular spot for lunch and evening cocktails for years, is attempting to repeat his magic in …

Dear Readers:

Since December, I’ve received an avalanche of mail chastising me for recommending drug stocks, and for my endorsement of the drug sector because of the Medicare prescription bill.

I have been taken aback …

There’s an old sales adage that says, “If you can make ’em laugh, you can make ’em buy.” The reason it’s old and the reason it’s been around so long is that it’s true.

Humor …

Former Austin, Texas, Mayor Kirk Watson told an audience assembled by the Downtown Community Alliance last week that when he asked his wife of more than 30 years on a date for the first time, …

The debate over whether to build a hospital in West Des Moines has had all the feel of a primary cycle in an election year. It has been long, drawn-out and bloody. And we’re nowhere …