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Of course, we’d never be so audacious as to tell you how or where to spend your money. We know our place. Nevertheless, here’s a challenge that is as perennial as the leftover turkey in …

ANKENY – It’s no compliment to Robert Denson whenever he hears Des Moines Area Community College referred to as the metropolitan area’s “best-kept secret.”

Beginning with the spring semester that starts Jan. 12, DMACC’s new …

Before it set its sights on West Des Moines, General Growth Properties Inc. had considered Ames as the location for its next big regional mall, on the heels of its success with its huge Coral …

On Nov. 6, AmerUs Group Co. announced that Thomas Godlasky, the life insurer’s top investment executive, would become president and chief operating officer, succeeding Roger Brooks, who remains chairman and chief executive.

The promotion raised …

A Cornell University researcher recently helped business leaders make their case that ensuring the availability of high-quality, affordable child care can be as important as tax breaks and other incentives extended to businesses looking to …

Later this month, the curtain will rise on the Des Moines Metro Opera’s production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at the Hoyt Sherman Place Theater.

“‘Amahl’ is to opera what ‘The …

Color Converting LLC of Des Moines, the second-largest U.S. producer of inks for consumer product packaging, has reached an agreement to be purchased by Siegwerk Group, a printing-ink manufacturer based in Siegburg, Germany.

The acquisition …

Allied Insurance is building an urban park on a plot of land a block west of its new downtown office building, but executives haven’t yet determined whether it will be made available to the public.…

Dear Mr. Berko:

In early 2000, I invested $10,000 and bought 150 shares of Sirius Satellite Radio at $62 a share. I thought that satellite radio was going to be the rage. Where did I …

The power of that statement is also the insight into the selling process. For the last 120 years, salespeople have been taught how to sell. This is the least powerful way of completing a transaction.…