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Iowa Job Honor Awards recognizes top honorees

The Iowa Job Honor Awards, a nonprofit working to increase employment opportunities for people with barriers including criminal convictions and disabilities, recently announced its top honorees for 2019, including individual awards to Bob Finlay of …

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Wells Fargo net income dips in third quarter

Wells Fargo & Co. today reported net income of $4.6 billion, or 92 cents per common share, for the third quarter, compared with $6 billion, or $1.13 per share, for the third quarter of 2018. The earnings …

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SBA guaranteed $168M in Iowa loans in FY2019

The U.S. Small Business Administration guaranteed more than $28 billion in loans to entrepreneurs in the year ended Sept. 30, including $168.1 million in Iowa.

Here are highlights from the Iowa data:

There were 406…
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Power Breakfast: Water Futures – How outdoor recreation and water quality will affect Greater Des Moines business in coming decades

Water is going to have a lot to do with Greater Des Moines’ ability to live up to projections for a population of 1 million, and to attract and keep enough workers to fully staff…
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Changes made to proposed Market District housing project

 

Since 2015, several projects have been proposed on vacant city-owned land north of East Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway between Southeast Sixth and Southeast Seventh streets.

None has moved forward.

Now, developer Frank Levy…
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Meredith adds another home-renovation TV duo to its new magazine lineup

Wall Street Journal: Meredith Corp. is betting the same playbook that made Magnolia Journal its most successful magazine launch will work for a new title featuring Drew and Jonathan Scott, the hosts of the HGTV series …

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Wall Street flat as U.S.-China trade deal optimism fades

Reuters: U.S. stocks halted a three-day winning streak this morning, as oil prices dived 2% and doubts rose over how quickly a partial U.S.-China trade deal announced on Friday could be sealed. President Donald Trump acknowledged …

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Iowa leaders, farmers pleased but cautious about Trump’s China trade agreement

Des Moines Register: Iowa politicians, farmers and business leaders were cautiously optimistic about a Chinese trade agreement that President Donald Trump announced “in principle” Friday. But some said they wanted more specifics from the White House, …

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Des Moines airport passenger traffic up 3.1%

Passenger traffic at Des Moines International Airport grew 3.1% in September over the same month last year. That left year-to-date growth at 6.9%, well above the level needed to support a planned new terminal. Among …

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Bower elected Iowa appeals court’s chief judge

The Iowa Court of Appeals has elected Judge Thomas Bower of Cedar Falls as its chief judge. Bower, a member of the appeals court since 2012, replaces Chief Judge Gayle Nelson Vogel, who recently retired. …