Archive for January 2019
Jury awards Boone County landowner $250,000 in Dakota Access pipeline lawsuit
Boone News-Republican/Cedar Rapids Gazette: A Boone County jury this week awarded a property owner who sued over the construction of an oil pipeline through her property $250,000 following a nearly weeklong trial in which she challenged …
Read MoreShopko closing nine Iowa stores as retail chain declares bankruptcy
Des Moines Register: Shopko will shutter nine Iowa stores in the fallout of the retail chain’s financial problems. The Wisconsin-based department store company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday, reporting liabilities between $1 billion and $10 …
Read MoreEMC to report net loss for 2018 following storm and market losses
EMC Insurance Group Inc. announced that it expects to report a net loss in the range of 33 to 37 cents per share for the year ended Dec. 31, 2018. Included in that amount is …
Read MoreFSA offices to reopen temporarily
Farm Service Agency offices have reopened temporarily to offer limited services to farmers and ranchers, the federal government announced. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recalled about 2,500 FSA employees to open offices today and …
Read MoreIowa unemployment rate held at 2.4% in December
Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 2.4 percent in December, Iowa Workforce Development said in a release. The state’s jobless rate was 2.9 percent one year ago. The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 3.9 …
Read MorePublic interview process for next state Supreme Court justice is set
The State Judicial Nominating Commission will meet Jan. 30 to begin winnowing applications to fill a vacancy that occurred when Justice Daryl Hecht retired Dec. 13. Nineteen Iowans have applied for the job. The public interview …
Read MorePartnership dinner sights and sounds
In case you couldn’t make this year’s Greater Des Moines Partnership annual dinner, we thought we’d pass along a few tidbits from our own observations and from the Twitter traffic at #DSMUSA from Thursday night’s …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Don’t reply to your emails: The case for inbox infinity
A few years ago, the goal of achieving “Inbox Zero” cropped up — having an email inbox of 0. I’ve never reached that number. My inbox usually holds several dozen messages. As a media company …
Read MoreWesleyLife, Genesis to collaborate on new senior living community
Quad-City Times: Johnston-based senior care provider WesleyLife will partner with Genesis Health Systems to form a new organization to focus on providing care to older adults in eastern Iowa. The collaboration will include building a new …
Read MoreAxne to serve on House agriculture committee following King’s removal
Des Moines Register: U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, a Des Moines Democrat, has been appointed to serve on the House Agriculture Committee, making her the lone Iowa representative to do so this year. Axne’s appointment comes after …
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