Archive for December 2017
Jan. 5: January Coffee Connection
Host: FemCity Des Moines
About: Join FemCity Des Moines for the group’s first Coffee Connection 2018. This event is come-and-go as you please and informal in nature. Stop by to meet women in a wide …
April 19-20, 2018: Finding your Wonder Woman Within
Host: Iowa Network for Women in Higher Education
About: The Iowa Network for Women in Higher Education enhances and advances women’s careers and leadership in Iowa higher education by creating a network of women in …
Lift IOWA – In Case You Missed It: 12-26-17
Memorial service plans have been announced for Muscatine philanthropist and civic leader Mary Jo Stanley, who died Dec. 14 at age 83. Corridor Business Journal
The Story County Community Foundation welcomed Sunni Swarbrick, MPA as its …
The reckoning: Women and power in the workplace
As revelations of sexual harassment break, women have been discussing the fallout and how to move forward. In a powerful piece in the New York Times, containing essays and art by Jenna Wortham, Ruth Franklin, …
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On The Rise: 12-26-17
Bridget Breen (pictured)
KTIV
Promoted to general manager
Sioux City
Sheila Kittleson
Cedar Falls Community Credit Union
Appointed to the board of directors
Cedar Falls
Melissa McCarroll
Brokers International
Hired as senior marketing manager
Urbandale…
International Women’s Day was the most talked-about moment on Facebook this year
Iowa Medicaid providers hit with $1.5 million in penalties
Des Moines Register: Iowa has assessed $1.5 million in penalties against the three companies that managed the state’s Medicaid program for failing to meet performance standards, newly released records show. More than $1 million of those …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: In case you missed it…
In case you missed it…
A brief look back at news from the past week.
CRE provider closes abruptly
Kansas City, Mo.-based commercial real estate listing and research company Xceligent Inc. shuttered its operations, affecting …
State’s unemployment rate dips below 3 percent
Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 2.9 percent for November, the lowest the rate has been since December 2000, Iowa Workforce Development said in a release today. A year ago, the state’s jobless rate was 3.5 …
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