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Iowa beverage retailers to post calorie information

 

Iowans will begin to see calorie information on beverage vending machines, convenience store coolers and fountain machines statewide under a new initiative announced today. 

 

Balance Calories Iowa, a combined effort of the Iowa …

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Greater Des Moines house prices rise nearly 4 percent in a year

Greater Des Moines house prices increased 1.3 percent from March to April, real estate analytics firm CoreLogic Inc. said today in a release. For the year ending in April, prices rose 3.9 percent. Nationwide, prices …

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Insufficient funding limits Iowa nurse loan forgiveness

More than 250 nurses who applied for a state-run loan forgiveness program will not receive any money this year from the underfunded program, which only had sufficient funds to partially reimburse 56 nurse educators who …

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Mid America Recycling buys Waste Management plant

Mid America Recycling has bought the Waste Management recycling plant in Des Moines for an undisclosed sum. Mid America was sold to Greenstar Recycling in 2007, and Waste Management bought the facility in 2013. The …

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Facebook to build third data center in Altoona

Facebook today said it will build a third data center in Altoona, confirming its initial plans for the site. The first building was announced in April 2013, and the second a year later. This is …

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Lawmakers find state budget compromise on school spending

State lawmakers have released a $7.3 billion budget agreement that represents a compromise on the two political parties’ disagreement on school spending and paves the way for the 2015 legislative session to end, reports DesMoinesRegister.com. Among other …

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Stock watch: On average, Iowa companies posted gains in May and for the year

May was a good month for the majority of public companies that are based in Iowa or have significant operations here, with 22 of the 36 posting gains in stock prices.

 

That’s the good …

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Iowa Business Council: Expect increased hiring

A majority of Iowa Business Council members expect to sustain or increase employment over the next six months, while sales and capital spending plans remain unchanged for the state’s largest employers, the Iowa Business Council …

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Federal Home Loan Banks complete merger

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines announced today that it has successfully completed its merger with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle and began operating today as one bank. Serving nearly 1,500 …

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Mercy cath labs receive accreditation

Mercy Medical Center – Des Moines and Mercy West Lakes recently received accreditation for their cardiac catheterization lab and percutaneous coronary intervention from Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence (ACE), an organization dedicated to ensuring adherence to …