Earl F. “Marty” Martin was in town Monday so Drake University could announce his appointment as the private Des Moines university’s 13th president.
For Martin, 53, who appears to be fit, it was a sprint …
The 2015 session of the Iowa Legislative will be a dud, a big zero. It won’t accomplish one thing worth remembering 10 years from now. I make that prediction because I know that very few …
I dropped by a Thursday airport briefing for local executives regarding the proposed new terminal building at Des Moines International Airport. This was the most recent of several such briefings held by consultant David Fisher, …
“Magic water” is what Shawn Mullen calls the fire-suppressing chemical Novec 1230.
To demonstrate, he unscrews a brown bottle and pours several inches of the clear liquid into a large glass jar.
First, he drops …
New Year’s resolutions are a pain. Lose 20 pounds. Eat better. Get in shape. Join the gym. Run three miles a day. Stop smoking. Stop drinking. Stop (fill in the blank).
NONE of those things …
If there’s one marketing tactic that we execute for clients that always yields incredible results, it’s when we secret-shop their operation. Without exception, a secret-shopping program will:
• Provide insights that surprise you (good and …
When Deon Pitsor first brought his family to Greater Des Moines in 2006, a friend of a friend dropped the name of a prominent businessman he should contact. Pitsor, an Iowa native who had been …
Iowa State University’s College of Business is trying to increase the number of women studying business.
About 35 percent of the college’s enrollment is female, a number that’s been static for the past five years, …
The Des Moines area has a chronic shortage of affordable housing, a fact recorded in enough dusty reports to feed wood-burning stoves across the city.
The solution isn’t just to build more lower-rent units, say …
The new year has just arrived, but three key players in Central Iowa economic-development already are working toward ambitious goals they hope will build on the successes of the past several years.
The Iowa Association …
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