Visual artists typically start with a blank canvas.
For Anne and Tyson Greenwalt, that canvas consists of bricks, rocks and boulders.
Last fall, the Greenwalts diversified their Stuart-based construction and landscaping company with the purchase …
The city of Pleasant Hill is looking into the feasibility of buying the White Water University recreation facility on University Avenue, which opened in 1980 but has been shut down for five years.
City Manager …
Makhteshim-Agan Industries Ltd., the world’s biggest maker of generic crop chemicals, last week canceled negotiations to buy Ankeny-based Albaugh Inc. for about $1 billion. Iowa native Dennis Albaugh founded his namesake company in 1979.
Makhteshim …
The Canadian-based suitor of Casey’s General Stores Inc. let it be known that its intentions were serious last week when it sweetened its offer for the convenience store chain to $38.50 a share, a $1.75 …
The U.S. unemployment rate rose 0.1 percent to 9.6 percent in August from July as the economic rebound shows clear signs of a slowdown, the New York Times reported.
However, according to the U.S. Department …
BP Plc’s cost of dealing with its recent oil spill disaster has risen to $8 billion, Reuters reported.
On April 20, the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig, which BP was leasing from Transocean, exploded and sank. …
Gov. Chet Culver was scheduled to be interviewed live at 9:10 a.m. today on CNBC’s “Street Signs.” The show, which recently ran a series that ranked America’s top states for doing business, according to 40 …
Activity in the three areas measured by large Iowa employers to gauge the strength of business for the coming six months – sales, capital spending and employment – did not vary significantly from results of …
John Deere Credit has partnered with Findley Elementary School in Des Moines to provide new digital video cameras, projectors and two books per student as part of its financial literacy outreach efforts. The school has …
The Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute will offer a second installment of Daybreak Leadership, a new leadership breakfast and networking program designed to encourage community leaders to continue lifelong learning. The next session will be …
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