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A Closer Look: Tom Hadden

You have to hand it to Tom Hadden for sometimes doing the unexpected in his career. Turning the Metro Waste Authority landfill in eastern Polk County into a nature reserve during the 18 years he …

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Public Companies: NewLink Genetics

Headquarters: Ames
Website: www.newlinkgenetics.com
Ticker symbol: NLNK
Employees: 120 

NewLink Genetics Corp. has grabbed national headlines recently for its work on a possible vaccine to turn the tide of the West African Ebola epidemic. However, …

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Public Companies: West Bancorporation Inc.

Headquarters: West Des Moines
Website: www.westbankstrong.com
Ticker symbol: WTBA
Employees: 185

If you judge it solely on stock price, West Bancorporaton Inc. is one of the top performing companies in the state. Over the past …

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Public Companies: Casey’s General Stores Inc.

Headquarters: Ankeny
Website: www.caseys.com
Ticker symbol: CASY
Employees: 31,000

If you ask CEO Robert Myers, Casey’s General Stores Inc. has a single “big, hairy, audacious goal” — to serve 1.5 billion customers annually by the …

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Gainers & Drainers

And the winner is … NewLink Genetics Corp.

The Ames-based company, which you can read more about on page 16, was far and away the biggest gainer of the 21 Iowa-based public companies included in …

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Business Record 1-9-15

Building a billion dollar bank
Lincoln Savings Bank is headed toward $1 billion in assets, thanks to a growth in commercial lending

Focus: Banking & Finance

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The world according to new Drake President ‘Marty’ Martin

Earl F. “Marty” Martin was in town Monday so Drake University could announce his appointment as the private Des Moines university’s 13th president.

For Martin, 53, who appears to be fit, it was a sprint …

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The Elbert Files: What won’t they do this year?

The 2015 session of the Iowa Legislative will be a dud, a big zero. It won’t accomplish one thing worth remembering 10 years from now.  I make that prediction because I know that very few …

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INSIDE LOOK: DSM airport terminal executive update meeting

I dropped by a Thursday airport briefing for local executives regarding the proposed new terminal building at Des Moines International Airport. This was the most recent of several such briefings held by consultant David Fisher, …

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The Elbert Files: Fighting fires with ‘magic water’

“Magic water” is what Shawn Mullen calls the fire-suppressing chemical Novec 1230.

To demonstrate, he unscrews a brown bottle and pours several inches of the clear liquid into a large glass jar.

First, he drops …