The Insider Notebook

Agricultural leader Bill Even, who returned to the Des Moines area this year to run the National Pork Board, can tell you everything you want to know about raising hogs. In an interview for a …

None of the six Solheim Cup staffers are from Iowa. None of them had been to Iowa before joining the Des Moines staff of the women’s professional golf event, as far as marketing and sales …

I was impressed with the new Vermeer Applied Technology Hub I saw during an open house of the new building at the ISU Research Park last week. The space is an innovation sandbox of sorts …

CEO Jim Masterson’s Des Moines-based LightEdge Solutions, which provides cloud services, was featured along with its SubTropolis location in Kansas City on NBC’s “Today Show” Oct. 16. Host Harry Smith, a graduate of Central College …

Word is out and out and out that Outlets of Des Moines is meeting its construction schedule in Altoona, but what might not be as well known is that in recent weeks the city has …

You could say the downtown Marriott made some noise for Gov. Terry Branstad when he spoke at the Iowa Food Leadership Reception Oct. 12, a side event of the World Food Prize. “Someone pulled the …

I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion with FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai the other day at a luncheon sponsored by the Technology Association of Iowa. Pai, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2012, was …

Dan Silverstein of Heuristic Management LLC, in town for the World Food Prize, gave the keynote address at chamber groups’ annual Terrace Hill breakfast attended by Gov. Terry Branstad and his wife, first lady Chris …