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Leaders of a city mired so deeply in a financial mess that they were forced to take the drastic steps of turning off streetlights and laying off more than three dozen employees are correct in …

Managers and business owners who have taken advantage of the downturn to unnecessarily squeeze their employees beware: the balance of power is shifting back in favor of the employee.

It’s not yet 1999, when start-ups …

Bob Ray says that when he passed the Des Moines mayor’s gavel to Preston Daniels in 1997, the city was desperately in need not only of leadership – the late Arthur Davis served about 16 …

Call it the year of guns and butter. And what a different year it was from 2002.

On January 1 of last year, the Dow Jones industrial average hovered near 8,500, having capped its third-straight …

The idea of putting alcohol fermented from corn into your gas tank was foreign to most people 20 years ago. So was the idea of investing in a plant to produce it.

“Nobody would touch …

Type “Silicon Plains Technologies” into your search engine, and you’ll find several employment ads for high-paying programming positions. The West Des Moines company, which will move to Urbandale by the end of February, has begun …

Ryder System Inc., one of the nation’s largest trucking and transportation companies, said it signed a non-binding letter of intent to buy all of the assets of Ruan Leasing Co., a subsidiary of Ruan Transportation …

I gave an interview on the importance of getting lost customers back. The result was information I think you will benefit from.

Question: Why are lost customers important?

Gitomer: How you lost them will give …

The best Christmas card of the year, at home and at work, came from Chet Guinn, one of the inaugural winners of Cityview’s Central Iowa Activist Awards presented in the fall. It’s got a picture …