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Des Moines is the capital of and the most populous city in the State of Iowa, United States. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines, owing its name to the Des Moines River (French: Rivière Des Moines, meaning "River of the Monks"), until it was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857. It is also the county seat of Polk County. The five-county metropolitan area is ranked 92nd in terms of population in the United States according to 2006 estimates with 534,230 residents according to United States Census Bureau.
Des Moines is a major center for the insurance industry and also has a sizeable financial services and publishing business base. The city is the headquarters for the Principal Financial Group, the Meredith Corporation, and Ruan Transportation. Other major corporations such as Wells Fargo, ING Group, Marsh, and Pioneer Hi-Bred have large operations in or near the metro area. Forbes Magazine ranked Des Moines as the fourth "Best Place for Business" in 2007.
Recently, Des Moines has been experiencing rapid growth in the western and southern suburbs and is quickly becoming a large metropolitan area and national center for financial business.
Articles
News from The Des Moines Register
Democrats, Republicans trade charges on education
Feb 10, 2012 6:26 pm
Newly released budget documents showed House GOP leaders want to cut more than $80 million from Gov. Terry Branstad's education appropriations package.Read our education blog
Obama: Birth control policy meets everyone's needs
Feb 10, 2012 5:33 pm
Capping weeks of growing controversy, President Barack Obama announced he was backing off a newly announced requirement for religious employers to provide free birth control coverage even if it should...
Wellmark to triple the number of "Blue Zone" demonstration sites
Feb 10, 2012 4:41 pm
Iowa's largest health insurer has decided to triple the number of cities and towns that could be picked as demonstration sites for a project to help make the state the healthiest in the nation.
Des Moines-area home sales in January beat year-ago results
Feb 10, 2012 4:35 pm
January home sales increased in January nearly 11 percent over a year earlier, but they were 34 percent below sales in December.
Police investigating man's fall in downtown Des Moines
Feb 10, 2012 4:22 pm
Man apparently fell down stairs at Court Avenue area apartment. He's in critical condition at a local hospital.
Court: Surgical change to shoulder doesn't automatically mean disability
Feb 10, 2012 4:01 pm
A Hormel Foods Corp. retiree was properly denied worker's compensation benefits because he failed to prove that a 2006 shoulder injury caused permanent disability and economic harm, the Iowa Supreme C...
Hearing set for Iowa woman in 19 Kids' extortion plot
Feb 10, 2012 3:40 pm
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa woman charged with threatening to release damaging photographs of a cast member of the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting if she wasn't paid $10,000 is expected to appear in ...
Iowa Department of Public Health: Flu increasing in the state
Feb 10, 2012 1:17 pm
The flu season typically peaks in February and can last as late as May.
Gas prices: Rising wholesale costs result in 11-cent jump
Feb 10, 2012 1:04 pm
Gasoline prices have climbed to $3.38 per gallon at central Iowa outlets. The wholesale price of unleaded gasoline traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange has climbed 30 cents per gallon since mid-...
Can Des Moines change the look of Walnut Street?
Feb 10, 2012 5:22 am
After Glenn Lyons became president and CEO of Des Moines' Downtown Community Alliance in 2010, he began asking a question: What's the city going to do about Walnut Street?
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