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On The Rise: 12-26-17

Bridget Breen (pictured)
KTIV
Promoted to general manager
Sioux City

Sheila Kittleson
Cedar Falls Community Credit Union
Appointed to the board of directors
Cedar Falls

Melissa McCarroll
Brokers International
Hired as senior marketing manager
Urbandale…

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Iowa Medicaid providers hit with $1.5 million in penalties

Des Moines Register: Iowa has assessed $1.5 million in penalties against the three companies that managed the state’s Medicaid program for failing to meet performance standards, newly released records show. More than $1 million of those …

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NOTEBOOK: In case you missed it…

In case you missed it…
A brief look back at news from the past week.

CRE provider closes abruptly
Kansas City, Mo.-based commercial real estate listing and research company Xceligent Inc. shuttered its operations, affecting …

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State’s unemployment rate dips below 3 percent

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 2.9 percent for November, the lowest the rate has been since December 2000, Iowa Workforce Development said in a release today. A year ago, the state’s jobless rate was 3.5 …

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Iowa leads the way in record wave of utility scams

A record number of Alliant Energy customers have reported scam phone calls, the utility reported. Of the 416 reports since Dec. 1, 265 came from Iowa. The rest were from Wisconsin. Customers told the company …

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Branstad in D.M.: Let’s add U.S. chicken to China dinner plates

U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad met this week with officials at West Des Moines-based Hy-Line to discuss opening China to poultry imports from the United States. 

China banned poultry imports from the U.S. after …

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Iowa Legal Aid names new executive director

Iowa Legal Aid will kick off the new year with a new leader. Nick Smithberg will succeed Dennis Groenenboom as executive director of on Jan. 4, announced Mark Zaiger, president of the Iowa Legal Aid …

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Successful Farming examines big ag mergers in ’17

This year brought an unusually powerful set of mergers in the agricultural arena, Successful Farming reports. “The Big Six in the agricultural seed, chemical and traits area — BASF, Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Syngenta and DuPont — are …

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Voya to exit annuities and Athene to expand, in deal that creates new variable annuity company

Two financial services companies with operations in Des Moines announced a deal today in which one will exit the annuity business while the other will significantly expand in the fixed annuity market. The deal also …

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EFR launches integrated substance abuse/mental health program

Employee & Family Resources recently launched a new program to meet the rising demand in Central Iowa for integrated substance abuse and mental health counseling. The addition of outpatient substance abuse services to EFR’s existing outpatient …