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MidAmerican Energy Co. announced today that it is giving $229,000 to 81 cities and community organizations in its Iowa service territory to support energy efficiency and environmental beautification initiatives through the planting of trees. Each …
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 9 percent in January from 9.4 percent during the prior month, though only 36,000 jobs were added in the non-farm employment sector as severe weather in some parts of …
The American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. board of directors has elected David Mulcahy to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Steve Chapman, who resigned from the board effective Dec. 31, 2010.
Mulcahy’s …
Agco Corp., the second-biggest U.S. maker of farm equipment behind Deere & Co., plans to break ground at the end of the first quarter on a tractor factory in Minnesota, Chief Executive Officer Martin Richenhagen …
The Polk-Des Moines Taxpayers Association has hired Gretchen Tegeler as its new executive director, President Marc Ward announced last week.
Tegeler, a Des Moines native, directed the Iowa Department of Management for eight years under …
It seems everybody made New Year’s resolutions in December, even Uncle Sam. The federal government’s came via the Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, otherwise known as “The Moment of Truth.” …
When Utah made its move to name an official state gun, that’s when I finally saw the light.
It was a big leap, because only a couple of weeks earlier, a different news item had …
The Polk-Des Moines Taxpayers Association, now 90 years old, was showing signs of wear. It had 300 members back in the 1970s and ’80s, according to organization president Marc Ward, but the website now lists …
Global food prices hit a record in January, and recent catastrophic weather around the world could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, Reuters reported.
Up for the seventh month in a …
A section of Third Street in downtown Des Moines from Walnut Street to Court Avenue will be closed to traffic on Saturday from approximately 5 a.m. to noon while a construction crane is set up …
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