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HomeChoice Senior Care joins BrightStar Care

HomeChoice Senior Care, a Cedar Rapids-based home care agency, announced it has become a franchise of BrightStar Care, a leading in-home care franchise, effective April 1. HomeChoice Senior Care, which operates in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids …

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Insurance Division seeks input on association health plans

Iowa Farm Bureau members aren’t the only ones who could benefit from an association health plan bill that goes into effect July 1. The Iowa Insurance Division announced today it’s seeking comments to develop rules …

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USDA, SBA seek to enhance coordination for rural programs

Two federal agencies have pledged to collaborate more closely to promote small businesses and agricultural economies in rural areas. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Linda McMahon, administrator of the Small Business Administration, today …

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NOTEBOOK: Only one-third of grads have good jobs waiting at graduation

Fewer than one-third of college students in the United States have a good job waiting for them upon graduation — a statistic that should make university presidents cringe. 

Among bachelor degree graduates from 2002 to…
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Lauridsens’ $1M donation lifts skate park campaign

 

Greater Des Moines benefactors Nix and Virginia Lauridsen — who a year ago donated $1 million to help overhaul the headquarters of the Des Moines Metro Opera — have given the same amount toward …

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Nelson plans $36M development, latest project in East Village

Nelson Construction & Development is proposing a three-level, 399-stall parking garage with no internal ramps as part of a $35.8 million mixed-use development along East Grand Avenue in the East Village of Des Moines.

Nelson, …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the April 6 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the April 6 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …

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Attorney General Miller joins lawsuit on citizenship information

Attorney General Tom Miller has joined 17 other attorneys general, six cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors in a lawsuit aiming to block the federal government from demanding citizenship information in the 2020 census. …

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Austin Jones named president of Grinnell State Bank

F. Austin Jones has been named president and chief trust officer at Grinnell State Bank, where he has worked for 31 years and most recently served as senior executive vice president, chief financial officer and …

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Linhart named director of DMACC Honors Program

Laurie Linhart of Urbandale has been appointed as the Honors Program director at Des Moines Area Community College. She replaces Sarah Waddle, who has been the Honors Program director since the summer of 2013. DMACC’s Honors …

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