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Several people stop on a skywalk bridge to watch, through the glass wall, a crew work on the Federal Building between Second Avenue and Third Street on Walnut Street in downtown Des Moines. Men below …

Seven days a week, Tricia Adams and her employees sit down at the confectionary machines that Helen Drew brought from New Hampshire to Dexter in 1927. Using the same recipes the original owner used, they …

Matthew Shaffer recently celebrated his 40th birthday on a polo field in Argentina. Shaffer, president of Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa Inc. and vice president of Wellmark Inc., says the opportunity to compete against some …

Principal Financial Group Inc., the nation’s largest manager of 401(k) retirement plans, said it has restructured into three units in a move that will make each division responsible for the distribution of its products.

Previously, …

Dear Mr. Berko:

I have three questions I’d like you to answer. I’m going to buy a car for $28,000, and I would like to know if it’s cheaper for me to lease or to …

Someone once asked Nikita Koloff, with whom I wrote “Wrestling With Success,” “What’s the hardest part about writing a book?”

Nikita replied, “Getting started.”

How many things have you wanted to do in life – …

Dennis Zank, president of Raymond James & Associates Inc., visited the firm’s West Des Moines office last week. The company is the No. 8 financial services company in the United States in terms of the …

Three months ago, Jeff Clayton came back to Des Moines, where he belonged. The associate attorney at Smith, Schneider, Stiles & Serangeli P.C. grew up here. He left to attend the University of Iowa, where …

Occasionally, Ric Silvestrini’s customers recognize him from his days as a WHO-TV sportscaster, which surprises him because he left the station in 1988.

“Being [sports director] was a lot of fun,” he said. “I covered …

One of two things is going to happen to Hoover, the line of vacuum cleaners and other floor-care appliances owned by Maytag Corp. It’s either going to be turned around, or it’s going to be …