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Answer blowing in the wind?

Iowa’s rise to national prominence in wind energy and a push to develop a full-fledged solar energy industry has led to a long debate over how best to handle independent installations that are hooked up …

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Business Record 9-18-15

Energy answers: Blowing in the wind?
Utilities, environmentalists debate future of independent solar, wind projects

Focus: Energy & Utilities

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Urban design board approves Eagle View Lofts, Confluence on Third

The Des Moines Urban Design Review Board endorsed plans for two downtown apartment complexes this week, recommending that the City Council approve them.


A controversy surrounding the proposed Confluence on Third apartment complex was averted…
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INSIDER: Projects at risk due to historic tax credit change; effort to resolve controversy underway

  Developers involved in the renovation of historic buildings say they are losing tens of thousands of dollars a month as bankers and state officials are meeting to work out a controversy surrounding Iowa’s historic…
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Regents seek review of AIB campus, consider other DM sites for center

     The Iowa Board of Regents will ask a consultant to study whether the AIB College of Business campus, set to be donated to the University of Iowa in July 2016, is the best…
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The Elbert Files: Des Moines’s new ‘Bridges’ story

Several months ago, while collaborating with Slingshot Architecture on a master plan for Hubbell Realty’s Bridge District housing development, Dennis Reynolds had an unusual idea. 

Reynolds is a transplant to Iowa, a creative guy who …

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Gitomer: The art of the sales lunch

Let’s do lunch! 

Well, let’s do lunch the right way.

Too often salespeople think that getting a lunch appointment is the victory, and don’t concentrate on building rapport and the relationship to ultimately make the …

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McLellan: Scarcity vs. abundance

When I started in the agency business 25-plus years ago, there was this odd paranoia that ran through agencies big and small. There was a belief that agency personnel couldn’t be friends with people who …

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New report spots local mental health service gaps

High health care costs are among the most significant barriers to Central Iowans’ access to behavioral health services and substance abuse treatment, according to a report recently released by three local human services agencies.
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Agricultural Ascent

Alden-based Summit Farms began as a 300-acre corn and soybean operation in Hardin County in 1990. The man in charge, Bruce Rastetter, grew up in the area and has lived there all along. 

Rastetter’s half-million-dollar …