By Brittany Heard | Financial planner, Foster Group It seems as if everything we’ve read and heard says that buying stuff doesn’t make us happy. We go shopping and buy new shoes thinking it will make …
When I moved to Des Moines in 1975, there weren’t a lot of lunch places downtown beyond the three established dining clubs.
Each club had a niche.
The Des Moines Club, organized in the late …
I’ve spent a lot of time in major cities like New York City, and as I walk those streets, and I am always very much aware of the homeless. They hold up signs that tell …
By Dawn Hafner | Des Moines I have three new vocab words for you to learn and master in 2020. Triggers, buffers and pings — oh, my! If you can master the recognition of these events …
By Jayme Fry | Vice president, commercial relationship manager at Bankers Trust I wish the title of this submission was an original quote, but I can’t take credit for it. I heard the phrase from Dr. Liang …
Whenever a friend or relative dies, it’s not unusual to find ourselves dwelling on the conversations we wish had occurred or the questions that never got asked.
That certainly was true with my parents, Noel …
Maybe it’s the fact that it’s not just a new year but a new decade, but for some reason this annual ringing in of the new year feels bigger somehow. You’re going to see all …
A long-forgotten piece of Des Moines history is retold on Pages 811-812 of Ron Chernow’s biography about Civil War General and 18th president of the United States Ulysses S. Grant.
Chernow’s 1,074-page “Grant” was published …
By Natalie Mahoney | Public affairs coordinator, PolicyWorks No. It’s a two letter word that can often wreak havoc in your life. It’s a word that easily pairs with negative feelings about yourself, leaving you feeling …
Twenty-one years ago this week, I wrote about the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in an article that carried the headline “So far, Dow not fazed by Clinton crisis.”
The purpose was to see how …
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