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Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 3.8 percent in April from 4 percent in March, Iowa Workforce Development reported. The state’s jobless rate was 4.4 percent a year ago. The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 5.4 …
Beck’s, a retail seed company in the United States, plans a complex on an 80-acre site in Colfax. The site, expected to open in 2016, will include a 90,000-square-foot seed distribution facility, research, and farmer …
The Iowa Economic Development Authority last week gave final approval, with a caveat, to a $36.5 million rebate of sales and hotel/motel tax revenues into a sprawling area in downtown Des Moines that will include …
The Greater Des Moines Partnership loaded a diverse group of nearly 200 active business, government and nonprofit group leaders onto a charter plane and headed for Washington, D.C., for its annual lobby trip May 10-12. …
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We’re searching for the business leaders to feature photographically in the 2015 Photo Issue edition of the Business Record, …
The Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Government Policy Committee is making a push today to keep one of its top legislative priorities alive as the session begins to wind down. The GPC emailed Partnership members this …
Minneapolis-based Medica to enter Iowa health insurance market
Iowans will have a new option for health insurance coverage in the individual market next year with the entry of Medica Health Plans, a Minneapolis-based regional …
When it comes to Greater Des Moines development, Tom Leners says that Madison County is “kind of the last frontier.” It’s a frontier that gets a lot of attention from developers, who point to its …
“The Metropolitan Revolution” co-author Bruce Katz visited Greater Des Moines for the first time last week, and the big thinker from the Brookings Institution liked what he saw. But if it were up to him, …
The Iowa Economic Development Authority’s Vision Iowa board voted today to approve $280,387 for the $1.7 million Ankeny Market Pavilion project, providing supporters complete a fundraising effort in the next 30 days. The project includes …
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