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Public Companies: KemPharm Inc.

Headquarters: Coralville
Website: www.kempharm.com
Ticker symbol: KMPH
Employees: 28

It may surprise many people that drug overdoses take more lives in the United States every year than car accidents or homicides. 

On average, 46 Americans die each day from …

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Public Companies: Flexsteel Industries Inc.

Headquarters: Dubuque
Website: www.flexsteel.com
Ticker symbol: FLXS
Employees: 1,360

Flexsteel Industries Inc. is making a bigger play in the health care industry, developing specialized chairs for patients who have Alzheimer’s disease or who are receiving …

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Guest Opinion: Iowa’s 21st-century workforce: A formula for success

BY BARRY BUTLER Executive vice president and provost, University of Iowa

BY GEORGINA DODGE Chief diversity officer and associate vice president, University of Iowa

The demographics of Iowa, along with those of the country and …

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INSIDER: Revised ‘revenue-neutral’ tax credit bill has industry, bipartisan support

At least five Iowa-based companies have projects in the works that would benefit from passage this year of a biorenewable chemicals tax credit, according to a new white paper, “Biobased Chemicals: The Iowa Opportunity,” released…
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INSIDER: D.C. brass discuss Guard base compromise in DSM

The brass in Washington are discussing a deal that could allow Des Moines International Airport to develop part of the Iowa Air National Guard base on its grounds, if the Des Moines Airport Authority board…
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INSIDER: Judge pats lawyers on back for being Iowa nice

U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett took the time and ink to pat the lawyers in this case on the back for meeting as instructed to frame questions that could be submitted to the Iowa Supreme …

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INSIDER: Principal to take on Seventh and Grand parking ramp; Nelson to move luxury high-rise project across street

  Principal Financial Group Inc. will take over the ownership and development of a parking ramp at the northwest corner of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, lifting a $30 million development project from the city…
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The Elbert Files: A presidential death curse?

Eight U.S. presidents have died in office, beginning with William Henry Harrison in 1841 and ending with John F. Kennedy in 1963. Four, including Kennedy, were assassinated; the other four, including Harrison, died of natural …

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McLellan: Waking from the deep sleep

I always think of the first couple weeks of January as the slow climb out of the holiday hibernation we’ve all been in for the past month. It seems that by the time December days …

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Gitomer: Skip resolutions for outcomes

Whatever your age, you’ve made resolutions, you’ve made goals, and you often fell short of them.

Drop resolutions; they’re always painful. Drop goals; they’re often unmet.

Refer to whatever it is that you want as …