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VIDEO: Power Breakfast: Disruption-proofing Des Moines’ economy

 

The coronavirus pandemic has drastically shifted the economy and with it, views of how communities and states should shift regional plans for the future. Business Insider named Des Moines one of the top 20 …

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Iowa prison population drops to 20-year low

Quad-City Times: Iowa’s prison population is below 8,000 for the first time in 20 years as officials try to stem coronavirus outbreaks at several facilities. Iowa’s nine prisons had 7,406 offenders as of Friday morning — …

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UI, UNI nix spring break, maintain hybrid learning next semester

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa today unveiled COVID-19-related changes to their spring semesters — including nixing the storied student rite of spring break. The universities also will start …

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Casey’s announcing campaign to fight food insecurity

Casey’s General Stores Inc. has announced it will donate 10 million meals to school-aged children and their families who are suffering from food insecurity. In a news release, the convenience store company said it has …

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Ames Seed Capital names new director

Mike Upah, pictured, has been named the director of Ames Seed Capital, an organization that provides seed funding for startup companies in the Story County area. According to a news release from the Ames Chamber …

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Officials: Aluminum tariffs, Canadian countermeasures will hurt Iowa manufacturers

Less than three months after the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement was enacted on July 1, the United States and Canada are squaring off in a renewed tariff war over aluminum exports that Iowa’s export council chairman …

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21-Day Equity Challenge brings community together for shared equity, inclusion education

Little did planners know when they began organizing the 21-Day Equity Challenge that the issue of equity and inclusion would be at the center of a national discussion.

The challenge, a joint initiative between the …

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Terry Branstad, U.S. ambassador to China, is stepping down

Wall Street Journal: Terry Branstad is stepping down as U.S. ambassador to China, ending a more than three-year tenure at the forefront of Washington’s increasingly strained relationship with Beijing. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thanked Branstad …

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Courtney Kay-Decker, who was director of the Iowa Department of Revenue from 2011 to 2019, has been selected by the Internal Revenue Service as one of 10 new members of the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee, the IRS announced.

A national report finds that 82% of Iowa small businesses increased their use of digital tools during the pandemic, compared with 72% of small businesses nationally, the Connected Commerce Council announced in “Digitally Driven” this …

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Former Iowa revenue director named to Electronic Tax Administration committee

Courtney Kay-Decker, who was director of the Iowa Department of Revenue from 2011 to 2019, has been selected by the Internal Revenue Service as one of 10 new members of the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory …

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