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Mandate masks in wide swath of Iowa, unpublished White House report recommended

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Face masks should be required in public for everyone in 47 Iowa counties — nearly half the state’s 99 counties — where the new coronavirus is spreading at higher rates, and bars and …

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Hoyt Sherman Place tells improvements to be made with historic preservation tax credits

Hoyt Sherman Place plans to use $710,000 it received in historic tax credits from the state to restore historical significance to the second floor of the mansion, including the master bedroom, sitting parlor and children’s …

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Kemin breaks ground on $8 million quality control lab at D.M. headquarters

Kemin Industries, a global ingredient manufacturer based in Des Moines, on Thursday broke ground for a new quality control laboratory that will be built at its worldwide headquarters in Des Moines. The new $8 million …

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Iowa’s unemployment rate at 8% in June

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate slipped to 8% in June, down from 10.2% in May, Iowa Workforce Development reported today. Iowa’s unemployment rate in June 2019 was 3.7%. “Moving out of double-digit unemployment is a …

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C-Bar opens at airport

A new place to get coffee or a drink opened this week at gate C5 at the Des Moines International Airport.
Photo submitted by the Des Moines International Airport.

Travelers passing through the Des Moines …

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Extended filing and delayed tax payment deadlines result in $500 million drop in state tax receipts

Iowa annual gross and net (gross tax receipts minus tax refunds issued) tax revenue calculated as a 365-day moving total. The time period depicted is June 30, 2017, through July 14, 2020. The graph shows …

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Newsroom 515: Accelerating entrepreneurs of color

When an entrepreneur of color begins the groundwork for a new business, what help is there to lift them up? At our July 15 Newsroom 515 event, four panelists described how these entrepreneurs face barriers …

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Gerhart joins Homesteaders Life Co. as chief innovation officer

Homesteaders Life Co. in West Des Moines has hired Nick Gerhart as executive vice president and chief innovation officer, effective Aug. 3. Gerhart, who was Iowa’s insurance commissioner from 2013 to 2016, most recently was chief …

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Joyce Pingel named new CIO of Holt Cat

Holt Cat of San Antonio has named Joyce Pingel as chief information officer, senior vice president and head of digital, the company announced today. Pingel is the current CIO at Kum & Go/Krause Group, where she has …

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Ousted Iowa Public Health spokesperson says she was seen as too open with reporters

Des Moines Register: A longtime spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Public Health said she was ousted Wednesday, and she believes it was partly because she was seen as too aggressive in sharing information with the …