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Federal law ensures job security for those fighting overseas

Thanks to a federal law, one thing upwards of 2,000 members of the Iowa National Guard to be activated for Operation Enduring Freedom don’t have to …

Grounds for Celebration, the popular neighborhood coffeehouse chain, is building a fourth outlet in Windsor Heights, planting itself amid one of the fastest-growing residential areas of the state.

The new coffeehouse, co-owned by Jan and …

ABC Electric Inc., a leading supplier of electrical systems design, installation and service in Des Moines since 1959, merged Jan. 30 with one of the Midwest’s leading specialty electrical contractors in an effort to spark …

The perennial fight before the Iowa Legislature between two financial-services trade groups is a little like a feud in which distant cousins get together once a year to argue over who got the most in …

Deep in the cavernous basement of Meredith Corp.’s headquarters building at 1716 Locust St. is a piece of Des Moines aviation history, the first civilian plane to touch down at Des Moines International Airport.

Flown …

First Bank’s president named West Des Moines Citizen of the Year

In the office of Rick Messerschmidt, president and chief executive officer of First Bank and West Des Moines’ Citizen of the Year, the walls …

Dear Mr. Berko:

What can you tell me about Mirant Corp. that sells under $2 a share? I bought 1,000 shares a couple of weeks after it went public in November 2000, sold it several …

I began the year in retrospect by reading “America’s Twelve Master Salesmen,” written and published by B.C. Forbes & Sons in 1953. Each of the masters had one extremely powerful overriding principle or philosophy upon …

Co-workers of Kacy Webster, assistant dean of Graceland Univerity, say she was fated to work for the college. She grew up in Maine, went to college in New Hampshire, and met her husband, Corey, while …

Firestone Agricultural Tire Division has strongly signaled that it intends to remain Des Moines’ top blue-collar employer with a proposal for a $24 million, 850,000-square-foot facility that would consolidate the tire maker’s global distribution warehouses …