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Corridor Media Group wins nine AABP editorial excellence awards

The Corridor Media Group, parent company of the Corridor Business Journal and the Quad Cities Regional Business Journal, took home nine total Editorial and Design Excellence awards from the Alliance of Area Business Publishers’ annual international competition. Both the Corridor…

Iowa companies join in support of USS Iowa SSN 797 christening

Big Grove Brewery has teamed up with Cookies Food Products and the Iowa Pork Producers…

Transportation Secretary Buttigieg visiting Eastern Iowa Airport Thursday

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the Eastern Iowa Airport Thursday morning, airport officials…

Pete Buttigieg

GreenState lending program helping hundreds of immigrant entrepreneurs

As GreenState Credit Union’s vice president/bilingual business director, Kenia Calderon Ceron launched an ITIN loan…

Eastern Iowa Airport to demolish former Guard armory, add two new hangars

The former National Guard armory on the Eastern Iowa Airport grounds will be demolished in…

Eastern Iowa Airport passenger

NAHB: Home construction stabilizing, inflation improving

Economic data suggests single-family home construction is stabilizing after declines in 2022 while inflation improves.…

UI Health Care appoints Denise Jamieson VP for medical affairs

Denise Jamieson, the chief of gynecology and obstetrics for Emory Healthcare and former Center for…

Denise Jamieson will succeed Brooks Jackson. CREDIT UI HEALTH CARE

NewBoCo wins $50,000 in growth accelerator competition

NewBoCo has received $50,000 after winning stage one of the 2023 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition,…

NewBoCo

Iowa Utilities Board launches new website

The Iowa Utilities Board has launched a redesigned website to help connect more Iowans to…

Iowa Utilities Board

Evolving First and First West now includes larger, relocated hotel

As progress on the First and First West development in downtown Cedar Rapids grows more…

Construction of the Pickle Palace at First and First West is well underway.

ISU Extension and Outreach, Linn Co. relocating to Hiawatha

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach–Linn County is relocating to a new and improved office…

University of Iowa partners with Des Moines insurance accelerator

The University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business has partnered with Des Moines-based Global Insurance…

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ImpactLife celebrates EMS Week 2023

ImpactLife, hospitals and emergency medical services providers are celebrating May 21 through 27 as Emergency…

EMS Week 2023

ADM signs agreement to pursue development, production of ‘air protein’

ADM and Air Protein have entered into a strategic development agreement to advance “new and…

ADM Cedar Rapids

Champions of Nature: Indian Creek Nature Center celebrates 50 years of growth

John Myers, executive director of Indian Creek Nature Center (ICNC) in Cedar Rapids, often contemplates…

Students taking part in Indian Creek Nature Center's Fresh Air Academy play in water on the center's land. CREDIT INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER

Child care worker wage raise approved in Johnson County

A resolution to increase wages by two dollars an hour for eligible child care workers…

Johnson County Board of Supervisors have voted to raise wages for eligible child care workers. CREDIT PEXELS