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Dice survey: Tech salaries up 7.7 percent

Average technology salaries in the U.S. saw the biggest year-over-year leap ever, up 7.7 percent to $96,370 annually, according to the annual salary survey by Dice, a leading careers site for technology professionals. Bonuses and contract rates …

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Best #SeizeDesMoines tweets from Partnership annual dinner

Check below for our list of some of the best tweets from the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s annual dinner Monday night. See the whole #SeizeDesMoines feed on Twitter.


Veteran newsman Tom Brokaw wowed a crowd of 1,400…
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Best #SeizeDesMoines tweets from Partnership annual dinner

Check below for our list of some of the best tweets from the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s annual dinner Monday night. See the whole #SeizeDesMoines feed on Twitter.


Veteran newsman Tom Brokaw wowed a crowd of 1,400…
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Prairie Meadows to consider Altoona grant

The Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino board will consider Altoona Economic Development’s request for a $500,000 grant on Wednesday. Also on the agenda is a closed session in which board members will review the performance …

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State jobs agency releases plan for overhaul

Iowa Workforce Development has released its second draft of a plan for the state to implement the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. The department will accept email comments through Feb. 21 atiwd.wioa@iwd.iowa.gov. 


The act, which took…
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Event Preview: 2016 Economic Forecast Luncheon

Oil. China. Ag prices dropping. Interest rates rising. Yes, the beginning of 2016 is off to a bit of a rocky start, as U.S. markets led off the year with their worst initial week of …

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Back to business?

This year’s session of the Iowa Legislature will include discussions of several topics of interest to Greater Des Moines business leaders.

Among them: local option sales taxes, water quality, tax credits for renewable biochemical production …

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Legislative issues: Old tax issues will rise again

Iowa legislators must feel as though they meet themselves coming and going at the start of a legislative session. Without fail, a few pieces of stubborn legislation appear year after year. That will certainly be …

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Nominations open for CommunityWINS grant program

The U.S. Conference of Mayors and Wells Fargo & Co. have announced a call for nominations for the 2016 CommunityWINS grant program, aimed at accelerating neighborhood revitalization, economic development and job creation in municipalities across …

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U.S. mayors: Metro economies will grow in ’16

The U.S. Conference of Mayors projects that nearly all of the nation’s 381 metro economies will grow in 2016, even after adjusting figures for inflation.


The organization found that 363 of the metropolitan areas will…