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CRST buys California-based Gardner Trucking

Cedar Rapids Gazette: CRST International on Monday announced the purchase of a California trucking company, the largest single acquisition in the Cedar Rapids company’s history. Gardner Trucking of Ontario, Calif., is considered the largest truckload carrier …

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Study: High deductible health plan enrollees’ out-of-pocket costs 1.5 times higher

Employees with  high-deductible health plans spent less money overall on health care and used fewer health care services than people with traditional employer-sponsored health plans, according to a new study from the Health Care Cost…
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Linn County supervisors pass ordinance to increase minimum wage

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Linn County’s Board of Supervisors has become the second in the state’s 99 counties to pass a minimum wage ordinance aimed at raising the local rate higher than the state and federal …

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Cedar Rapids affordable housing project faces long odds

Cedar Rapids Gazette: A lack of support from the Cedar Rapids City Council could torpedo an affordable housing complex with special accommodations for the homeless.…

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Planned Parenthood to let go of 3 clinics in the South

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which is based in Des Moines, plans to transfer ownership of three clinics in Arkansas and Oklahoma to another affiliate. Clinics in Fayetteville and Little Rock, Ark., and in Tulsa, …

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Grand View’s freshman class enrollment jumps 26 percent

Grand View University announced a 26 percent increase in the size of its freshman class over fall 2015, making it the third-largest incoming class in the university’s history. Full-time enrollment is also up this year, …

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Continental Western contracts with Fluttrbox for drone program

Commercial insurer Continental Western Group has piloted drone technology and analytics from Fluttrbox, Insurance Networking News reported. Montreal-based Fluttrbox, which graduated in 2015 from the Global Insurance Accelerator in Des Moines, provides a network of drone …

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Continental Western contracts with Fluttrbox for drone program

Commercial insurer Continental Western Group has piloted drone technology and analytics from Fluttrbox, Insurance Networking News reported. Montreal-based Fluttrbox, which graduated in 2015 from the Global Insurance Accelerator in Des Moines, provides a network of drone …

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Deere announces executive moves

Michael Mack Jr.

Deere & Co. today announced changes to its senior management team in response to the planned retirement later this year of Michael Mack Jr., 59, group president for John Deere Financial Services, …

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Deere announces executive moves

Michael Mack Jr.

Deere & Co. today announced changes to its senior management team in response to the planned retirement later this year of Michael Mack Jr., 59, group president for John Deere Financial Services, …