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DART begins on-demand microtransit service in Ankeny

Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority has launched its DART on Demand microtransit service in Ankeny. The new pilot project offers on-demand service that a customer can schedule in real time or in advance. It picks a …
By BPC Staff | Nov 15, 2021
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BrokerTech Ventures opens applications for accelerator’s third cohort

BrokerTech Ventures announced today that applications are open for its 2022 accelerator program. The Des Moines-based accelerator focuses on startups that serve the insurance industry and specifically brokers. The 2022 program will be BTV’s third accelerator since …
By BPC Staff | Nov 15, 2021
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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: A closer look at who is leaving their jobs as the Great Resignation continues

We continue to read about the nation’s labor shortage and the phenomenon that is being called the Great Resignation. This story from the Wall Street Journal shows the exodus from the workforce hasn’t let up and sheds …
By MICHAEL CRUMB | Nov 15, 2021
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Deere offers workers relatively minor change in contract set for vote Wednesday

Des Moines Register: Striking Deere & Co. workers will decide this week whether a small tweak to their incentive plans is enough of a change to bring them back to work. Officials with the company and …
By BPC Staff | Nov 15, 2021
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Storm Lake documentary airs tonight on Iowa PBS

You can go inside the Storm Lake Times, a family-run newspaper serving an Iowa town that has seen its fair share of changes, tonight at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS. Pulitzer Prize-winning Editor Art Cullen …
By BPC Staff | Nov 15, 2021
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Jenna Kimberley elected president of Des Moines homebuilders

Jenna Kimberley, vice president of Kimberley Development Corp., has been elected president of the Home Builders Association of Greater Des Moines, and will take office in January. Kimberley follows in the footsteps of her father, …
By BPC Staff | Nov 15, 2021
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Dogpatch Urban Gardens seeks rezoning to expand urban farm

Dogpatch Urban Gardens plans to expand its urban farm with the purchase of a parking lot adjacent to the farm property on 51st Street. According to a news release, Dogpatch Urban Gardens purchased the parking lot from …
By BPC Staff | Nov 15, 2021
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On The Move: Week ending November 7

Lindsay Cannaday

United Way of Central Iowa

Hired as LINC & United LEAGUE director

lindsay.cannaday@unitedwaydm.org


Roni Knief

Lutheran Services in Iowa

Promoted to vice president of finance/chief financial officer

roni.knief@lsiowa.org


Alexis Yocum

Meyocks

Hired as …
By BPC Staff | Nov 15, 2021
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Iowa insurance giant TransAmerica faces lawsuit over NRA-marketed cancer policy

Des Moines Register: A Washington state dispute over a decades-old cancer insurance policy sold by the National Rifle Association has entangled Cedar Rapids-based insurance giant TransAmerica. In a lawsuit filed in November 2020, 87-year-old Ronald Shields …
By BPC Staff | Nov 12, 2021
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Variety’s Two Days of Compassion Radiothon set for Dec. 7-8

Variety – the Children’s Charity of Iowa’s annual Two Days of Compassion Radiothon is scheduled for Dec. 7-8 on radio station KJJY, 92.5 FM. The radiothon, scheduled to run from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., …
By BPC Staff | Nov 12, 2021