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He’ll remain The Donald

Donald Trump, the real estate developer turned reality television star, said today he will not run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, Bloomberg reported. “Business is my greatest passion, and I am not ready …

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Principal employees package meals

On May 11, 800 Principal Financial Group Inc. employees packaged 100,000 meals to be shipped to starving people in countries around the world, including earthquake victims in Haiti. It was the second onsite Meals from …

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Fuel leads uptick in consumer prices

Consumer prices rose by 0.4 percent in April from the prior month, and higher fuel prices accounted for more than half of the hike, MarketWatch.com reported.

According to new government data, the prices U.S. consumers …

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IASB board removes Grimley as president-elect

The board of directors of the Iowa Association of School Boards (IASB) on Thursday voted 11-2 to remove Lee Ann Grimley of Springville as president-elect of the organization. Grimley, who was first elected to the …

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Iowa company recognized for employee ownership

Cedar Rapids-based Van Meter Industrial Inc. has been named by the ESOP Association, the national trade organization for companies with employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), as the 2011 ESOP company of the year. Founded in …

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Iowa State colors, biofuels to run at Iowa Speedway

Iowa State University, which was named by Biofuels Digest as the 2010 Institutional Research Facility of the Year, will be featured at the Iowa Speedway’s NASCAR event May 21-22. The car driven by Tanner Whitten …

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Heartland Express finding ways to save on fuel costs


Several strategies enabled Heartland Express Inc. to keep fuel costs under control in the first quarter of 2011, the North Liberty-based trucking company said in a quarterly report filed May 6 with the Securities and …

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Sales trending upward at HNI, but losses continue


Office furniture maker HNI Corp. saw net sales increase 9 percent, or $32.6 million, in the quarter that ended April 2, compared with the same quarter a year earlier. The Muscatine-based company improved its office …

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A bubble in the air?


With another Pella Tulip Time festival just past, giving some attention to the notion of “bubbles” seems timely, for it was the Dutch tulip mania of the early 1600s that is generally considered the first …

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Transitions: Corporate taxes are flexible


Baseball umpires all learn the same rules about calling strikes. Then a game starts, and the home plate ump calls them according to whether he feels like crouching all the way down or only bending …