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There was a moment of shocked happiness last week when celebrants of the Des Moines Business Record’s annual Women of Influence event realized that their ceremony fell on the 83rd anniversary of the 19th amendment.…

We’ve been having some internal discussions at Business Publications Corp. about our products and the niches they fill in Greater Des Moines and Central Iowa. You’ll begin to see some of the results of some …

Captain Jack wants to know how things work.

It is this trait, more than anything else, that has led him along what could be interpreted as an erratic career path. He has been a broadcast …

As presidential candidates continue to stump the state to garner support in the 2004 Iowa Democratic precinct caucuses to be held Jan. 19, a number of politically active groups are hard at work to educate …

Estee Walter loves the Iowa State Fair. She loves it so much that every day she commutes 80 miles to the Iowa State Fair Blue Ribbon Foundation office in Des Moines. Walter, who serves the …

If you’ve ordered flowers at Boesen the Florist’s 3801 Ingersoll Ave. store, there’s a good chance you know Lee Donnellan.

Ever since he joined the company 20 years ago, he’s worked at the flower shop’s …

GRINNELL – This college town of 9,200 people recently devised a new economic development technique, joked Todd Linden, chairman of Grinnell Renaissance, a development partnership between the city and Grinnell College.

“We just arrange for …

The Grow Iowa Values Fund Board has approved $9 million in grants to Trans Ova Genetics, to assist the Iowa company in bringing its biotechnology products from the testing stages into production.

The state’s partnership …

Steve Smith has 1 million new reasons to move his growing software development company to Des Moines.    Last week, the Grow Iowa Values Fund board approved a $1 million loan-grant package to GCommerce Inc. …

Pat Langel, owner of Pat Langel Clothiers, is working to dress Des Moines, one custom-made shirt and hand-sewn suit at a time.

Langel, who trained in New York City under the famed clothier Norman Hilton, …