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Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie airs Monday - Friday from 5 to 6PM Central on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines, Iowa. While we have the business news of the day we also interview news-makers and business people to share their information. This podcast carries only the interviews. Today we talked with Creighton Cox the Executive Officer with the Home Builders of Greater Des Moines about the rising costs associated with building materials and the need of more skilled trade workers. The...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is our broadcast about business in the Des Moines Metro. We're live on 1350-KRNT each day, Monday - Friday starting at 5PM for your drive home.or right here on your time. In the first half hour, along with the top business news of the day we visited with the start-up White Willow Events. In studio with us was Kyra Jacobson and Taylor Thompson. From bridal events to bar-mitzvah events they have it covered. Then, following the Wall Street Jou...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is heard live Monday - Friday from 5PM to 6PM on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines, Iowa. Each day we bring the the Metro the business news of the day along with stock reports, an agricultural report and interviews with business and community leaders. Our published podcasts contain the interviews. On the News Hour broadcast today we had the Superintendent of the Des Moines Public Schools, Tom Ahart in to talk about reading and match scores, the graduati...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the business news broadcast for the Des Moines Metro. Today along with the business news (we cut most of the news from this podcast) we bring you interviews with business leaders and news-makers. We start out with Michael Leo the food and beverage man for the Oktoberfest of Des Moines. Michael owns the Strudl Haus. One word from Michael and you'll understand why he was chosen for this role. Then we visit with Dan Nannan from Silverwings Pr...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is heard Monday - Friday live at 5PM on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines...or right here on your time. Along with the business news of the day we offer interviews with news-makers and business people, telling the back-story of their efforts. We've paired down the podcast to include only the interviews and not the news stories. On this broadcast of the News Hour we visited with Bob Oliver of Bob Oliver Heating and Air Conditioning about marketing, the w...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie airs live Monday - Friday on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines. On this podcast we share the daily interviews we do with news-makers and business people from across the Metro. Today we visited with Jason Olson from Duplication Media of Urbandale. We also spoke with Jon Thompson from Evolve Des Moines about networking and Start-Up Drinks. Later we welcomed Rick Davis to the studio and he had some nice things to say about the News Hour and about dreams. ...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is heard Monday - Friday starting at 5PM on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines, Iowa. It is the only hour long business news broadcast in the region. We focus on local news and interviews with business news-makers. You can follow us on Facebook or on Twitter. Today, along with the local business news we had these interviews: We spoke with Mark Pierce the stadium announcer for the Iowa Cubs and newly tapped arena announcer for the Iowa Wild hockey team. G...

We're Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie heard live each weekday starting at 5PM on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines, Iowa. After the broadcast we share our business and news-maker interviews with you on this podcast. On this broadcast we heard from Kristian Day a film-maker from Iowa who spent some time sharing the back-story of film making in Iowa, the Templeton Rye film and his latest project opening up the Orpheum Theater in Fairfield. Lot's of fun stuff in this interview. Enjoy! T...

We think we have this figured out! We have been posting the entire News Hour and realize that often the news we are sharing in the Podcast is "yesterday's news" so we've eliminated much of the news content and bring you the interview portions of the broadcast. It takes us awhile... The first interview is with Jonnie Wright from The UnSecret Shopper on the BuyOSphere. He shares some great retail tips for owners and managers on customer service, how to build a great staff and how to make sure the...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is heard live Monday - Friday on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines, Iowa. But we know you want to listen on your time as well...so here you go. Today along with business news from Des Moines, West Des Moines, Urbandale, Ankeny and a host of other Metro Communities we heard from Ben McDougal of Drake Homes about his methods of marketing, what is unique about Drake Homes, what tools he uses and the Des Moines housing trends. In the second half hour Dr. Je...

Insight on Business the News Hour is heard Monday - Friday live at 1350-KRNT in Des Moines, Iowa...on our time. This is the podcast from 17 September 2013 with Kent Sovern from AARP-Iowa about older workers. And we've got Rick Davis in from Rick Davis Loans to talk about how a college student can get out of renting and into owning. Those two interviews along with the business and economic news of the Des Moines Metro.

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is a broadcast heard live on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines, Iowa. It is the business and economic news of the Des Moines Metro along with interviews about business and economic development. In the interview portions we visited with Christian Gurney of Torsion Mobile about why business needs to pay attention to going mobile with their website. How consumers are using smartphones and tablets and why mobile makes sense. In the second half hour we visit...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is our daily look at the business news and economic development news of the Des Moines, Iowa Metro. We're heard live M-F between 5PM and 6PM on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines. Today we spoke with Suzanne Hull the Get It Done Girl of Iowa about the Social Media Club of Des Moines and what it means for business and individuals. We also discussed her Iowa Wine Tour an event slated for this Sunday...and we hear tickets are still available. In that same h...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie talks about the business news of the Des Moines Metro and offers up interviews with news makers from the area. Today we visit with Rick Davis of Fidelity Bank and Rick Davis Loans about a brand new program for college students. Imagine owning your housing rather than...renting. Rick shares the new news today. In the second half-hour we're joined by Jill Flemming. Jill was in a "crappy corporate job" and fear was holding her back from starting...

Insight on Business the New Hour with Michael Libbie is heard live Monday - Friday starting at 5PM Central on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines, Iowa. The News Hour focuses on business and interviews with news-makers. In this podcast we hear from Matt McCarty, an active duty police officer who is a co-owner of Drive With Cops a driving school. It's different, unique to the Metro and there is a special reason, according to McCarty, why this is so...personal. Following the stocks and a report from agricultur...

Insight on Business - The News Hour with Michael Libbie and heard live each Monday - Friday on 1350-KRNT, Des Moines, Iowa. Along with the business news of the day we welcomed Mike Woody from Capital Ideas to talk about the 4th Quarter and some things a business can do to boost sales during this critical time. Our second interview is with Felix Gallagher of PharmServe a successful staffing service which places pharmacists in pharmacy's across the country. We also talk about the patient, druggist...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie shares the news of business and economic development. Today our guests included Ted Irvine the former president of the Des Moines West Side Chamber and a key contributor to a plan known as the Ingersoll and Grand Revitalization Plan that calls for improvements from sewers to streetscapes the latter costing a bit over eleven million dollars. Then in the second half hour we visit with Todd Frederickson the president of the Iowa Wild Hockey Team...

Insight on Business - The News Hour and the Labor Day 2013 Edition. Today we hear from Justin Brady, small business owner and organizer for the Iowa Creativity Summit. What is it? What can business learn from creativity and more with Justin Brady. Because it's Labor Day we visited with several Des Moines Labor Leaders. We heard from Danny Homan the president of AFSCME and Ken Sager from the AFL-CIO. Some encouraging words from the president of the Des Moines Area Community College Rob Denson and...

From August 29, 2013: from the IOB Newsroom we'll hear from Howard Bernstein about wine and liquor sales, small business and consumers. In addition we've got the Polk County Treasurer Mary Maloney in studio talking about property taxes. Plus reports from the field about the "largest Indian supermarket" in Iowa and you'll never believe where that is. We've got the stocks of local interest and a marketing/advertising tip for your business. Those stories and so many more with Insight on Business - ...

Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie and our news hour from August 28, 2013 featuring our guests Creighton Cox the executive officer with the Home Builders Association of Greater Des Moines and Ed Snuffin who is launching a brand new venture designed to maintain the health of your computer at Iowa Computer Club. Those interviews plus the business news of the Des Moines, Iowa Metro, stocks of local interest, a "soft opening" for Sam Auen and a business tip about "responsive web d...