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USDA helped record number of rural Iowans buy homes last year

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program helped 2,663 rural Iowa families buy homes last year, a record for the state, using more than $277 million in loans, according to a release.
The number …

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Raylee Melton to lead class on social media for career advancement

Raylee Melton, founder of social media firm Moth Media, will lead a four-part series on “Advancing Your Career With Social Media” at the Goodwill Career Connections Center starting next week.

Topics will include do’s and …

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VIDEO: Power Roundtable – Culture

Editor’s note: Before all of our Power Breakfast events, we bring the panelists to the Business Record for a pre-event meeting on the topic and to banter through potential questions. We always leave that meeting …

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Iowa Utilities Board seeks input on distributed energy options

Could new technologies enable utilities to build and operate smaller power generation sources located closer to end users throughout Iowa? It’s a broad question the state’s utility regulator has begun looking into, and it’s now …

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Local bus ridership up in November

Total ridership for the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) was up 3.65 percent in November 2013 as compared with November 2012, according to numbers released by DART yesterday. A total of 349,845 passengers …

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Husain named vice president of World Food Prize Foundation

Mashal Husain has been named the vice president of the World Food Prize Foundation. Husain has been the organization’s director of development and finance since September 2008. She oversaw and managed the $30 million renovation …

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Camp Fire seeks Absolutely Incredible Kid nominations

The Camp Fire Heart of Iowa is accepting nominations for its annual Absolutely Incredible Kid awards. The program recognizes children over age 12 and young adults who have, in the last year, given to their …

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Colombian cuisine offered at networking breakfast

CultureALL’s next Culture Kin Breakfast and Networking Event for Greater Des Moines professionals on Friday, Jan. 24 will feature Colombian cooking by chef Amparo Tavera de Romero. Born in Colombia, the Waukee resident discovered her …

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Eight of 10 best places to live in Iowa are in Greater Des Moines, according to California real estate firm

Movoto Real Estate of San Mateo, Calif., ranks Waukee as the top place to live in Iowa, based on variety of factors, including its crime rate, its number of high school graduates and median income. …

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Jones Lang LaSalle arrival speaks well of local economy

Commercial brokerages in Greater Des Moines shouldn’t sweat the arrival of another national player in town, said Heath Bullock, who recently was named head of the Iowa and Greater Des Moines markets for Chicago-based Jones…