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Iowa sports equipment and apparel company joins new national brand

The Graphic Edge, a Caroll-based sports equipment and apparel company, recently joined a new national brand, Game One. The Graphic Edge is combining under the brand with seven other legacy companies, the company said in a release. …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ Why offices are still empty

At last week’s Power Breakfast on the future of downtown, there was a theme that kept coming up: There aren’t as many workers in offices as there were pre-pandemic. Panelists talked about giving employees a …

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Wakonda Club, other restaurants ask court to hold insurers liable for COVID losses

Des Moines Register: Two cases before the Iowa Supreme Court could decide whether Iowa restaurateurs are in line for millions of dollars to compensate them for business lost in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. …

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103-year-old Sherman Hill building could be home to new brewery, restaurant

Des Moines Register: A 103-year-old historic building in Des Moines’ Sherman Hill neighborhood may soon be home to a new restaurant and brewery. That would bring to three the number of breweries in the neighborhood, which …

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Iowa Supreme Court won’t weigh in on challenge to long-expired COVID-19 bar closures

Des Moines Register: The Iowa Supreme Court said today that it won’t weigh in on emergency actions Gov. Kim Reynolds took early in the pandemic, noting Reynolds has now backed away from measures she once supported. The …

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Hospitality group owner sells East Village bar Bellhop in shift to sole ownership

Des Moines Register: A Downtown Des Moines tropical getaway is getting new ownership. Nick Tillinghast, owner of Des Moines Does Things hospitality group, announced that he sold the group’s East Village bar Bellhop. Tillinghast did not …

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Wages for restaurant/bar workers rising at a fast rate

INTERACTIVE MAP of Iowa food service employment, wages: Click on a county in the map above to see the number of people employed in Iowa’s restaurants and bars in the third quarter of 2019 and 2021 and …

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Fareway pledges $2M for Boone wellness center

Boone City Council member Steven Ray speaks during Thursday’s announcement that Fareway is pledging $2 million toward the construction of a new wellness center in the community. Photo by Michael Crumb

BOONE – Saying it would …

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Introducing: The Drake Business Clinic

Drake University is busy taking its entrepreneurial education program to the next level, under the leadership of a serial entrepreneur and change-maker, Bill Adamowski.

Adamowski was recruited to Drake in early 2020 — shortly before the…
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Kum & Go selling convenience store property in Drake area

The Kum & Go convenience store at 2211 University Ave. will close on Feb. 16 and the property will be sold, company officials announced. Photo courtesy of Google

Kum & Go plans to close its convenience …