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Fearful this fall’s near-record cattle prices – around $110 per hundredweight at their peak in October – wouldn’t last, rancher Mike Hunter stuck to an aggressive marketing plan. He routinely sent fat cattle to market …

Along with the usual resolutions, you can also be sure that the new year brings with it updated legislative wish lists from business and economic development groups.

This year, the dominant themes are much the …

After spending the past 17 years in the No. 2 position at the Des Moines International Airport, Bob Hagener has been promoted to the top spot.   On Jan. 1, he replaced Aviation Director Bill Flannery, …

The share prices of all but one of Central Iowa’s publicly traded companies rose in 2003, boosted by the same factors that helped the Dow Jones industrial average, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the …

Principal Real Estate Investors, the fifth-largest manager of real estate in the United States, said it purchased a prominent shopping center in Central New Jersey, betting on continued growth in retail spending in one of …

Dear Mr. Berko:

You made a ridiculous comment a year ago that the national deficit was $40 trillion. I thought that you were out of your mind and, respectfully, I still do. The papers tell …

In 1972, when I was studying sales and positive attitude, I watched a movie called “Challenge to America,” almost everyday.

In it was a story told by the great Glenn W. Turner, in which he …

Harry Bookey and his company, BH Equities LLC, are working to transform portions of downtown Des Moines, Dubuque and Davenport, one project at a time. A year ago, Bookey and three partners led the opening …

In June of this year, Stacy VanLoon was diagnosed with breast cancer. The problem was detected early on through a mammogram, allowing her to be successfully treated.

“When the biopsy results come in — when …

This fall, Robert Shumaker joined the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary as head of orangutan research, the latest step in a career he dreamed of as a child. A few years ago, he was reminiscing with …