Dylan Mullenix is no stranger to the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, celebrating his 18th anniversary with the regional transportation entity this summer. He started with the MPO as a transportation planner and rose …
As a child, Jasmine Brooks’ playthings frequently included scrap pieces of lumber, nails, tape measures, hammers and other things used by her father to build or renovate houses.
The scrap lumber was used to make …
Art shouldn’t be intimidating. But for many people, it is.
Alexa McCarthy, the new executive director of the Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation, said a goal of hers is to make art accessible to …
Ryan Crane considers his work with One Iowa to be the “coolest first job out of college and the coolest first job in Des Moines I could ever have.”
It was also Crane’s first experience …
Skylar Mayberry-Mayes gives a lot of credit to the board game Monopoly for initiating his career in finance and real estate. He said he wasn’t planning to attend college as he prepared to graduate from …
Former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, along with his wife, Ruth, founded the Harkin Institute in 2013 as a nonpartisan policy nonprofit focused on labor and employment, people with disabilities, retirement security, and wellness and nutrition. …
Jill Wilkins’ home office wall, decorated with framed posters from Broadway shows, is a reminder of the influence the arts have on her life. Her parents are both artists, which drew her to dance, music …
2023 was so disastrous for U.S. pork producers that analysts were left to predict that 2024 couldn’t possibly be any worse.
Tyson’s announcement that it will soon close a Perry processing plant, putting nearly 1,300 …
April Schmaltz never lived in the same place for long while growing up.
She was born in Tennessee, spent most of her childhood in a small community called Buhler, Kan., and moved to Texas when …
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