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Pella: More than dutch letters

Karen Eischen knows what’s going on in Pella. 

Eischen, executive director of the Pella Chamber of Commerce, helps guide development from her upper-level office in a remodeled visitors hub northwest of a tidy town square …
By PERRY BEEMAN | May 20, 2016
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All you need is growth

Focus: Municipal Governments

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By BPC Staff | May 20, 2016
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Hrdlicka: Biofuel future bright despite EPA decision

Iowa’s biofuel industry will thrive despite a setback from an Obama administration decision Wednesday, especially with the promise of biorenewable chemical production, a key observer in Iowa said today.


Joe Hrdlicka, executive director of the…
By PERRY BEEMAN | May 19, 2016
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Students to get hands-on manufacturing experience

A dozen Greater Des Moines junior high students will get an intense introduction to the world of manufacturing early next month, through a hands-on, on-site program developed by Albert Marasco, CEO of Summit Products Inc.…
By JOE GARDYASZ | May 19, 2016
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Downtown to get more than 1,000 high-tech jobs in major lease and construction deal for Des Moines

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., a multinational corporation that is based in New Jersey with a presence in Des Moines, plans to hire more than 1,000 people and occupy office space in Two Ruan Center as…
By KENT DARR | May 19, 2016
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At this convention, it’s better when what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas

Listen closely and you might hear the buckles being cinched on travel bags as an annual pilgrimage gets underway to a Las Vegas convention that can lead to retail development in Greater Des Moines.


The…
By KENT DARR | May 18, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: An 8 a.m. train hack and some extra 5th Street safety

For any of those commuters who use Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway to enter the downtown core from the south (me), you know there’s one risk that can blow up your morning schedule — the …
By CHRIS CONETZKEY | May 18, 2016
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NOTEBOOK: When Harry Met Sally … on the bus

The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority has compiled a humorous video that explores the growth of the relationship between the mass transit agency and its member communities. The video, with a “When Harry Met …
By PERRY BEEMAN | May 18, 2016
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State panel moves to save communities cash — or ‘weaken’ water quality protection

A trio of business and government groups has asked the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission to change state rules in an effort to overturn environmentalists’ March court victory in a water quality case.

Depending on the…
By PERRY BEEMAN | May 18, 2016
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New Waukee school to sprout development; here’s who owns the land

The city of Waukee will pay $39,000 an acre for 160 acres of land that will be part of a joint project with the Waukee Community School District.


The majority of the land will be…
By KENT DARR | May 17, 2016