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High-tech training techniques augment classroom learning, boost performance

Managers are turning to supplemental high-tech multimedia instruction to help train employees, boost performance and shore up their companies’ bottom lines, says the leader of one local …

The Court Avenue Housing Advisory Committee recommended that two Minnesota-based companies be picked to revitalize the Court Avenue area, the group announced this morning.

In choosing Minneapolis-based Lander/Sherman and St. Paul-based MetroPlains, the commission delivered …

The waters of the Great Floods of 1993 have long since receeded, but the images of the destruction they caused still swirl in the back of our minds.

Ten years ago this month, rushing floodwaters …

Behind the scenes of the $15 million gift to Iowa Health-Des Moines from the Michael R. Myers family for a new hospital in West Des Moines was one man whose job is to seek out …

The economic weather report is cloudy. For some, gloomy.

Layoffs. Mergers. Reorganizations. Cutbacks. Cost cutting. Budget cutting. It’s America’s new corporate scourge. And it’s workers new fear.

People are panicked when changes occur in their …

Cardiologists at the Iowa Heart Center were the first in the state to use a device called FilterWire to treat a heart ailment. The FilterWire EX Embolic Protection System, manufactured by Boston Scientific Corp., was …

We don’t envy the challenge that Barb Nervig and her five colleagues at the state’s Health Facilities Council are facing regarding the hospital issue in West Des Moines.

Iowa Health-Des Moines has announced plans for …

“Did you earn that?” asked the woman behind me in the checkout line asked. I was wearing one of my all-time favorite T-shirts. On the front are the words “Iowa: A Place to Row” and …

In recent weeks, two of the state’s biggest health-care providers, Iowa Health-Des Moines and Mercy Medical Center, have said they plan to spend more than $260 million in the coming years to build and renovate …

Steve Caster was a successful certified public accountant working for prestigious firms. Then he decided he wanted more. He wanted to run his own business. In doing so, he became a better CPA.

Caster, a …