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Local coaches say business is up as hiring is down.

This summer, people looking for work are facing bleak prospects. About 63 percent of employers do not expect to hire any additional workers this summer, …

There has been increasing evidence in the last few months that business owners and managers, no longer content to lament the stagnant economy, are taking steps to improve their own fortunes. The Business Record took …

When Rock Rapids-native Sandra Dieren graduated from Buena Vista University with an accounting degree, she started down the ideal career path. She was hired by KPMG, one of the world’s biggest public accounting firms. During …

In recent years, many people have lamented that raising money for big public projects in Des Moines just isn’t as easy as it used to be. Money, power and decision-making, they argue, have been leaving …

It’s easy to point to the Capital City Vision projects, the proposed Principal Riverwalk, the improvements at Gray’s Lake, the restoration of Hoyt Sherman Place theater and other big-ticket projects and praise their potential to …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Iowa inched closer to gaining equity in Medicare reimbursement with the Senate Finance Committee’s approval of landmark legislation, the pinnacle of the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s annual lobbying trip to Washington, D.C., …

One year ago, Reed Rinderknecht, a director of marketing and client relations at the Foster Group, decided that even though he had lived in Greater Des Moines for seven years, he didn’t know the community …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Building on the success of a May mission that netted $10 million in trade agreements with Iowa companies, the Greater Des Moines Partnership has stepped up its support for normalized commerce with …

Partnership delegates in nation’s capital swell ranks of city’s cheerleaders

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A rousing, hand-clapping celebration of neighborhood-based services, charitable contributions, cultural improvements and ethnic diversity that led to Des Moines’ selection as an …

Officials with Grubb & Ellis Co./Knight Frank say leasing activity in the Des Moines commercial real estate office market slowly improved during the first quarter of 2003, while vacancy rates for in neighboring metro areas, …