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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Student loans and entrepreneurship: An overview

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has published this issue brief on the potential effect of student loan debt on the decision to pursue entrepreneurial ventures. Nearly 1 in 6 adults in the U.S. has outstanding student loan …

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Cedar Rapids schools to stop use of seclusion

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Cedar Rapids Community School District will stop the use of seclusion in all school buildings and programs beginning Oct. 10, as a part of a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of …

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ONE GOOD READ: Store shelves are no longer bare, but baby formula remains in short supply

New York Times: More than six months after one of the largest infant formula manufacturing plants in the United States issued a recall and was then shut down because of contamination concerns, a newborn staple …

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DMACC opens criminal justice training center

The Criminal Justice Training Center on the Des Moines Area Community College Ankeny campus is now open, following a ribbon cutting and open house hosted by the DMACC Foundation on Sept. 9. The 1,500 square-foot …

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Iowa agency launches Business Engagement Division

Iowa Workforce Development has launched its new Business Engagement Division, a part of the state agency’s move to reorganize employees around the state to create more efficiencies in assessing and resolving Iowa employers’ workforce challenges. As …

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Iowa Departments of Education, HHS award $600K for school mental health training

The Iowa Departments of Education and Health and Human Services awarded today 10 grants totaling $600,000 to public school districts for training and coaching school health care workers on COVID response-and-recovery initiatives focused on social-emotional-behavioral …

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VisionBank of Iowa to acquire Legacy Bank

Ames-based VisionBank of Iowa announced Friday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Legacy Bank, based in Altoona, in a transaction the organizations said “will bring together two long-standing community banks with a focus on …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Wyoming will soon be home to world’s largest carbon removal facility

Here’s a timely story out today from Fast Company that details what the world’s largest carbon-capture project in the world will look like two states to the west of us — in my former stomping grounds in …

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Walk to End Alzheimer’s to be held Oct. 1 at Capitol

The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s will be held in Des Moines at the Capitol on Saturday, Oct. 1. Registration begins at 8 a.m., and the Walk kicks-off at 9 a.m. On walk day, …

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Iowa authors to be honored by Des Moines library foundation

Three Iowa authors will be honored during the Des Moines Public Library Foundation’s 2022 Iowa Author Awards Dinner that will be held at 6 p.m. on Oct. 14 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Des …