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March 21: The Future of Happiness in the Digital Age: Leadership Strategies to Enhance Performance and Well-Being

Host: IWLC Metro Women Connect
About: Amy Blankson unveils five strategies that successful individuals use to find a sense of balance between technology, productivity and well-being in the digital age. By rethinking when, where, why and …

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March 26: Tarana Burke presents ‘#MeToo’

Host: Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
About: Tarana Burke founded the Me Too movement in 2006 to support sexual harassment and assault victims, particularly women and girls of color. Ten years later, …

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March 27: WLN March Luncheon with Brenda Clark

Host: Women’s Leadership Network – Dubuque
About: As women, sometimes it seems like bullets are coming at us from all directions: multiple responsibilities, too-high expectations, difficult people and daily aggravations. In this fun, interactive session, …

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On The Rise: 3-12-18

      Jamie Milne (pictured)
Happy Medium
Hired as director of connections strategy
Des Moines

Kathleen Sullens
Community 1st Credit Union
Promoted to branch manager
Cedar Rapids

Angie Cobb
Pioneer Bank
Joined the bank …

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SEC reaches $3.6 million settlement with Voya

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday announced a $3.6 million settlement with investment adviser subsidiaries of Voya Holdings Inc. for a securities lending practice that harmed mutual fund investors, Investment News reported. In its order, the SEC …

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Massachusetts launches investigation of Wells Fargo Advisors

Wells Fargo’s wealth management business is facing a fresh investigation into whether clients were sold inappropriate investments and steered into high-cost advisory accounts, Financial Planning reported. On Thursday, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin announced that …

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EPA awards grants to 16 Iowa school districts for school bus upgrades

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today awarded $532,000 in rebates to 16 Iowa school districts to help them replace 28 older diesel school buses, including three in the Bondurant-Farrar Community School District. The awards are part of …

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Feed Energy offers ‘Excellence in Ag’ scholarships

For a seventh year, Pleasant Hill-based agribusiness company Feed Energy Co. is offering two $2,500 “Excellence in Ag” scholarships to students studying agriculture at a college or university in nine Midwestern states. Recipients will include …

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As Trump administration touts coal, renewable energy use rises

Coal is still Iowa’s largest source of energy generation, but ethanol production and wind energy are gaining ground. Coal use in Iowa dropped from 76 percent of power production in 2008 to 47 percent in …

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What’s happening with trade — and how does Iowa fit in?

There’s been a lot of talk of tariffs and trade in national and local headlines in the last week or so. The March 9 Business Record (Insider) tackles the very topic with Managing Editor Perry Beeman talking …

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