Opinion

Martha Washington and Abigail Adams were smart businesswomen. One can argue that Martha’s business sense was at least as good as our first president’s and that Abigail had a far better head for business than …

My neighbor Kent Mauck has a talent – his wife calls it a curse – for restoring older, underappreciated commercial buildings.

By underappreciated, I mean buildings that no one else wants, like the two-story storefront …

When President Obama visited Iowa last summer, he spoke of the importance of strengthening our rural communities and encouraging economic development. One of the keys to this effort is access to the Internet and other …

The Iowa Lottery is allowed by law to spend up to 4 percent of gross revenue on marketing. With sales last year of roughly $310 million, that gave the Lottery a marketing budget of up …

“True leaders — in business and in personal life — are able to navigate the ambiguity of not knowing, the instability of uncertainty; and the discomfort in the gap that opens up before clarity arises.” …

America was divided into colonies during the 1700s and into states in the century that followed. Regional groupings among adjacent cities and across state lines began appearing in the 20th century as a tool for …