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“Are you going to caucus?”
The question came from deep inside a fur-lined parka.
“You know better than to ask me that,” I said to my friend K.C. when our paths crossed on Grand Avenue …
By Ellen Willadsen | Chief financial officer, Holmes Murphy & Associates What do pajamas, Doris Day, beer, women in business and my hometown have in common? Textile Brewery in Dyersville, that’s what! A new brewery opened …
Walter Isaacson’s keynote address to the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s annual dinner on Jan. 15 included an unexpected mention of local genius Feng Zhang.
Isaacson has written acclaimed biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo DaVinci, Albert …
A friend asked a question recently about Des Moines University, the osteopathic medical school at 3200 Grand Ave. that will spend up to $200 million in the next three years to build a new 88-acre …
By Brittany Heard | Financial planner, Foster Group It seems as if everything we’ve read and heard says that buying stuff doesn’t make us happy. We go shopping and buy new shoes thinking it will make …
When I moved to Des Moines in 1975, there weren’t a lot of lunch places downtown beyond the three established dining clubs.
Each club had a niche.
The Des Moines Club, organized in the late …
I’ve spent a lot of time in major cities like New York City, and as I walk those streets, and I am always very much aware of the homeless. They hold up signs that tell …
By Dawn Hafner | Des Moines I have three new vocab words for you to learn and master in 2020. Triggers, buffers and pings — oh, my! If you can master the recognition of these events …
By Jayme Fry | Vice president, commercial relationship manager at Bankers Trust I wish the title of this submission was an original quote, but I can’t take credit for it. I heard the phrase from Dr. Liang …
Whenever a friend or relative dies, it’s not unusual to find ourselves dwelling on the conversations we wish had occurred or the questions that never got asked.
That certainly was true with my parents, Noel …
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