Archive for June 2021
HBT Financial to acquire NXT Bancorporation to enter Iowa market
HBT Financial Inc., the holding company for Heartland Bank and Trust Co. in Illinois, will expand its footprint into Iowa with the acquisition of NXT Bancorporation Inc., the Corridor Business Journal reported. Based in Bloomington, Ill., HBT …
Read MoreSBA holds funding competition for providers of veterans’ federal procurement training
Nonprofit organizations and private sector firms are now eligible to compete for funding of up to $500,000 to deliver federal procurement training to veteran and service-disabled veteran entrepreneurs. Applications are open through July 12. Awardees …
Read MoreDes Moines-area homebuilding continues to slow
Homebuilding continued to slow in the Des Moines area in May with nearly 13% fewer residential building permits issued than in April, a review of communities’ building permit records shows.
The slowdown follows a trend …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Cyber threat level against private businesses urgent, White House warns in national memo
Des Moines Area Community College recently announced an investigation into a cybersecurity incident first identified on June 2. The investigation prompted DMACC’s information technology department to voluntarily shut down all online instruction and the telephone …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Two lessons for tomorrow’s challenges
As they say, hindsight is 20/20 — and panelists at this year’s virtual Iowa Technology Summit had the benefit of tough lessons from the year 2020 to share with Iowa companies tuned in for seminars …
Read MoreNew state law targeting lessons on race and sexism still ambiguous for classrooms
Axios Des Moines: Iowa schools are awaiting guidance over how a new state law targeting lessons on race and sexism will influence classrooms. Gov. Kim Reynolds this week signed into law a bill that bans …
Read MoreBeaverdale businesses offer discounts with vaccination card program
The Beaverdale business community has launched the Beaverdale Community Immunity Cards program, an effort to encourage COVID-19 vaccination within the Beaverdale neighborhood. From now through September, anyone who gets their final COVID-19 vaccine shot at one of …
Read MoreJacobs-Young named to World Food Prize Foundation’s Council of Advisors
Chavonda Jacobs-Young, acting under secretary for the Research, Education and Economics mission area and acting chief scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture has joined the World Food Prize Foundation’s Council of Advisors. According to …
Read MoreLauridsens donate $2M to help kick-off DMMO’s 50th season with Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Nix and Virginia Lauridsen have donated $2 million to the Des Moines Metro Opera to support a groundbreaking production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, the opera announced today. The production will kick off the organization’s …
Read MoreIowa civil rights advocate Mia Peterson has died, family announces
Des Moines resident Mia Peterson, 47, known for her pioneering work in the self-advocacy civil rights movement for people with disabilities, died on June 8 from Alzheimer’s disease at home, according to an obituary published this …
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