Hair braiding regulations to ease this week

Des Moines Register: A new law that takes effect Friday will allow people to do natural hair braiding in Iowa without a cosmetology license, which requires 2,100 hours of training that is mostly unrelated to braiding. …

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Labor Dept. grants to help expand apprenticeship programs

U.S. states can expand registered apprenticeship programs in good-paying job fields such as information technology, health care, advanced manufacturing, building trades, cybersecurity and business services, using a new U.S. Department of Labor grant. The department …

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Urbandale adopts complete streets

The city of Urbandale has become the eighth local city to adopt a complete streets policy. Complete streets are designed to accommodate pedestrian and bicycle traffic and transit along with vehicles. Des Moines, Carlisle, Johnston, Norwalk, Pleasant …

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