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On The Rise: 1-21-19

Shelley Schneider (pictured)
IOOF Home and Community Therapy Center 
Hired as director of nursing
Mason City

Billie Esser
IOOF Home and Community Therapy Center 
Promoted to assistant director of nursing
Mason City

Jennifer Walker 
Quad-Cities …

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Guest opinion: Raising boys in a #MeToo world

By Angela Walker Franklin | President and CEO, Des Moines University

In the past year, the #MeToo movement has been the focus of many conversations, debates and arguments. Not a day goes by that we don’t hear …

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Jan. 25: Norwalk Area Chamber Annual Awards Banquet

Host: Norwalk Area Chamber of Commerce
About: The 26th annual awards banquet celebrates a year of growth. The social hour will start at 6 p.m. with the dinner and program starting at 7. Tickets are …

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Iowa’s Mainstreet Index rose in January

Creighton University’s Rural Mainstreet Index for Iowa rose to 54.2 in January from December’s 53.7. Anything over 50 indicates growth. Over the past 12 months, Iowa’s Rural Mainstreet economy saw jobs rise 0.5 percent, while urban areas …

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Art Center lands Warhol grant

The Des Moines Art Center has received a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. The grant will support these exhibitions, along with commissions, publications and community programming: “Susan Collis: Without you the world goes …

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Community Foundation awards three major grants

The Community Foundation has awarded Leadership Grants to the Des Moines school district, the Evelyn K. Davis Center for Working Families and House of Mercy. Des Moines Public Schools will use its $100,000 grant to …

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Urbandale rejects Merle Hay housing plan

Rules are rules, procedures are procedures, and as a result the owners of Merle Hay Mall are no closer to a redevelopment plan for a stretch of parking lot planted on the Urbandale side of …

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Jan. 31: Des Moines’ Market District Plan, An Area in Transition

Host: Urban Land Institute Iowa
About: Known as the Market District of the East Village, this area of downtown Des Moines has a fascinating history of primarily industrial and municipal government uses, yet the current wave …

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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 …

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Shopko 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 …