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SBA backed fewer loans in November

The U.S. Small Business Administration backed seven private loans for Central Iowa businesses in November, tying July’s total for the smallest batch of the year. 

The private loans were for a combined $2.06 million, the …

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Data breach hits drivers who paid Ames city parking tickets

A data breach could have compromised the payment information of 4,600 motorists who paid city-issued parking tickets in Ames — using a software application also implicated in at least 18 municipal breaches nationally since early …

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Dubuque Greyhound race track will be one of few left in the U.S.

Reuters: Global stocks tumbled to one-week lows today, as declines by long-dated U.S. bond yields and a renewal of trade concerns stoked fears of a downturn in the United States, the world’s largest economy. U.S. markets …

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Wells Fargo to pilot fee-only advisor offices in 2019

Wells Fargo plans to test the waters in the fee-only advisor market by opening several registered investment advisor (RIA) offices around the country next year, Financial Planning magazine reported. The bank, which has been embroiled in a …

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Art Center wins $10K Sotheby’s Prize for exhibit

The Des Moines Art Center’s exhibition “For Today I Am a Boy: Contemporary Queer Abstraction” received a $10,000 grant from Sotheby’s, one of five chosen from among 93 applications from 19 countries. The exhibit, which …

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IUB approves MidAmerican’s Wind XII project

The Iowa Utilities Board on Tuesday approved MidAmerican Energy Co.’s $922 million Wind XII project, which will add 591 megawatts and get the company closer to its goal of 100 percent renewable energy. The ratemaking …

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Small-business optimism at 15-year high; taxes remain key issue

Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index, with an overall index score of 129. That is 11 points higher than last quarter’s score of 118 and the highest in the survey’s 15-year history. The fourth quarter 2018 survey …

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State revenue director resigns

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Courtney Kay-Decker, who has served as Iowa Revenue Department director since 2011, announced she is stepping down to return to the private sector. Kay-Decker told employees in an email Monday she will resign …

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Homesteaders Life names new regional director

Homesteaders Life Co. announced that Joan Schoborg has been named regional director for the company’s home office in West Des Moines. Schoborg fills a role previously held by Karen King, who is retiring after 46 years with …

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UI appoints new dean for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The University of Iowa has selected a new dean for its largest college, after more than two years without a leader, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported. Steve Goddard, University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior associate to the …