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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Does being nice hurt your career?

University of Iowa associate professor of management and entrepreneurship Rong Su has been conducting research to understand if being nice affects your career success, and her findings are shared in this Fast Company article. The first …

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Oldenburg, maker of iconic downtown Des Moines umbrella sculpture, dies

Des Moines Register/Associated Press: Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of an umbrella in Des Moines and a baseball bat in Chicago, among other objects, has died …

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Guaranteed income program to launch in Des Moines metro

Axios Des Moines: A guaranteed monthly income payment of up to $500 will be provided to 110 Des Moines metro participants. It will be part of a two-year pilot project that will launch later this year, …

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Ingersoll Dinner Theater building gets new life following sale

Axios Des Moines: The Ingersoll Dinner Theater is getting new life, thanks to a local developer who has purchased the property. The historic theater on Ingersoll Avenue has sat empty for nearly a decade and has …

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Marshalltown civic center hires new director of operations

The Marshalltown Arts and Civic Center, formerly known as the Fisher Community Center, has hired Nancy Vellinga Burke as its first full-time director of operations. Burke is a Marshalltown native who is relocating to her …

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LBS acquires Massachusetts-based Cover Material Sales

LBS, a Des Moines-based manufacturer and distributor of materials for the production of books and luxury packaging, announced that it has acquired the assets of Cover Material Sales Inc. in Hyannis, Mass., effective July 18. Cover …

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Kruse, Reisetter named to key positions with Iowa HHS

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced two key leadership positions. Dr. Robert Kruse will join the agency as the state medical director, and Sarah Reisetter has been named deputy director …

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University of Iowa, Iowa State set new funding records for fiscal year 2022

Clay & Milk: The University of Iowa and Iowa State University have released their external funding figures for the budget year that ended June 30, and both universities surpassed their previous funding records. The University of …

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Rising costs prompt a dozen Iowa nursing homes to close

Radio Iowa: A dozen Iowa nursing homes have closed in the past seven months for financial reasons. Iowa Health Care Association President and CEO Brent Willett said that like any industry, nursing homes face rising operating …

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IowaWORKS website restored after outage

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The state of Iowa’s job search website has been restored, Iowa Workforce Development announced today. On June 26, the IowaWorks.gov website went down due to a cyberattack aimed at Geographic Solutions Inc., the …