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Lift IOWA – Women In The News: 4-6-20

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For Linda Meloy, writing a book about the impact the League of Women Voters has had in Iowa during the past century was “like putting together a thousand-piece puzzle with 300 pieces missing and a lot …

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Everyone is home right now, but who’s doing all the ‘home’ work?

Harper’s Bazaar: “Imagine a giant social experiment where all the undervalued and underpaid women required to get through your day went missing — teachers, housekeepers, babysitters, grandmothers, nannies, home-care aids, you name it — and you …

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Court: Trucking company owner who failed to carry workers’ comp liable for injury

The owner of a Spirit Lake trucking company who pleaded guilty to charges that he failed to carry workers’ compensation insurance for his drivers must pay the costs associated with an injury suffered by one …

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LenderClose begins facilitating remote online notarization for mortgage closings

The Des Moines fintech company LenderClose announced Thursday it has made what it believes is the first-ever remote online notarization used to close a mortgage loan in Iowa. 

Remote online notarization transactions were authorized last week as …

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Principal hires former PG&E executive as chief information officer

Principal Financial Group today announced that Kathleen Kay, former chief information officer for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., will join Principal as its new chief information officer on May 1. She succeeds Gary Scholten, chief information …

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Former Clive mayor Les Aasheim dies

Former Clive mayor Les Aasheim, 82, died Sunday after a long illness, Clive officials announced. Aasheim’s death was not related to the coronavirus, according to a release. Aasheim was mayor from 2001 through 2009. Before …

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How will COVID-19 shape organizations’ HR strategies?

Over the past several weeks, organizations of all sizes have dealt with unparalleled changes (and journalists have reached for their thesaurus to find new synonyms for “unprecedented”).  Standing in the breach of the turmoil are …

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Arconic, Howmet Aerospace complete separation

Quad-City Times: Arconic Corp. shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The April 1 split of Arconic Inc. into Arconic Corp. and Howmet Aerospace was completed as scheduled. Arconic Davenport Works will …

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Planned Parenthood, governor reach agreement over abortion order

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Abortion providers on Wednesday dropped their request for an emergency injunction against an order from Gov. Kim Reynolds banning “nonessential” surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic after it became clear the order doesn’t forbid …

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Ethanol producers donate additional product to make hand sanitizer

Two additional Iowa Renewable Fuels Association member companies have sent donated shipments of ethanol to the state of Iowa to be used by Iowa Prison Industries to continue its  production of much-needed hand sanitizer. This …