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Wells Fargo lays off another 107 workers in DM metro as mortgage market cools

Des Moines Register: Wells Fargo & Co. announced another round of layoffs in the Des Moines metro last week, doubling the number of workers at the banking giant who have lost jobs in central Iowa this …

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Cyberattack suspends Cedar Rapids summer school activities

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Cedar Rapids Gazette: A cyberattack discovered over the holiday weekend has caused the Cedar Rapids Community School District to suspend summer programming until July 11, the district said. Its announcement did not describe the …

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Adventureland negligence led to boy’s 2021 death on Raging River ride, lawsuit claims

Des Moines Register: The family of an 11-year-old Marion boy who died in a ride malfunction at Adventureland filed a lawsuit in the matter today, almost a year after the tragedy. Michael Jaramillo drowned when the …

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Marshalltown receives $4.4 million from FEMA for derecho cleanup

Marshalltown Times-Republican: U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, announced this week that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved $4.4 million in reimbursement for the city of Marshalltown in the wake of derecho cleanup efforts. The city …

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Iowa Consumer Protection Division sees solar power complaints shoot up

Radio Iowa: The consumer protection division of the Iowa attorney general’s office is seeing a dramatic upturn in complaints about solar energy companies in recent months. AG spokesman Lynn Hicks said people go into the endeavor …

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Grassley added to list of Americans banned from traveling to Russia

Des Moines Register: Russia today added Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley to a list of more than 900 prominent Americans banned from entering the country as the U.S. government continues to levy sanctions following Russia’s invasion …

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Iowa Workforce Development site outage expected to last through today

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa Workforce Development’s IowaWORKS.gov website, which developed an outage on Sunday, was expected to remain down through today, the state agency said in a news release Monday. The outage was not expected to …

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Des Moines unveils plans for a $40 million phosphorus recovery plant

Axios Des Moines: A $40 million phosphorus recovery facility will be constructed by the Des Moines Metropolitan Wastewater Reclamation Authority under a plan presented to the city’s Urban Design Review Board last week. The WRA anticipates …

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Task force asks Polk supervisors to spend up to $16 million on water quality

Des Moines Register: Polk County supervisors are being asked to spend up to $16 million on several water-quality projects that County Administrator John Norris said could jump-start “transformational” changes for Central Iowa residents. A task force …

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Report: Iowa entrepreneurship levels yet to recover after pandemic

Corridor Business Journal: Iowa has not experienced a rebound in entrepreneurship activity following the pandemic, according to a new Indicators of Entrepreneurship report from the Kauffman Foundation. That differs from the national trend. In 2021, entrepreneurship …