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Textiles' store sign at 105 S. Dubuque St. in the Ped Mall.

Downtown Iowa City clothing boutique, Textiles, reopening this month under new ownership

A downtown Iowa City women’s clothing boutique is reopening under new ownership this month after 34 years in business. Textiles will reopen at 105 S. Dubuque St. in the Pedestrian Mall with new owner Miranda Meyer, an Iowa City native…

University of Iowa lecturer named to IRS committee

Robert Gettemy, a full-time instructor at the University of Iowa, is one of eight people…

A University of Iowa professor was named to a select IRS committee.

Grow Solar Linn + Johnson Counties receives 2022 ISAC Excellence in Action award

Grow Solar Linn + Johnson Counties received the 2022 Iowa State Association of Counties (ISAC)…

Grow Solar ISAC award

Nordstrom board adopts ‘poison pill’ to fend off potential takeover

In the wake of a Mexican upscale retailer’s move to purchase 9.9% of Nordstrom’s stock,…

Nordstrom Cedar Rapids

Rexco Equipment acquires JP Scherrman equipment dealer

Rexco Equipment, a heavy and compact construction equipment dealer headquartered in Cedar Rapids, has acquired…

Rexco Equipment Cedar Rapids JP Scherrman

First Interstate Bank raises minimum wage to $17 per hour

First Interstate Bank is raising the minimum hourly wage for all employees from $15 to…

First Interstate Bank

Nordstrom to lay off more than 200 Cedar Rapids workers

Nordstrom plans to lay off more than 200 workers at its warehouse and distribution center…

Nordstrom Cedar Rapids

Workforce Innovation leaders honored at Kirkwood

Local companies leading the way in workforce innovation were honored Sept. 21 during an awards…

Workforce innovation panelists

University of Iowa researchers help discover 60 new autism genes

Scientists at the University of Iowa contributed to a study published in Nature Genetics that…

Jake Michaelson, associate professor of psychiatry in the UI Carver College of Medicine, was the lead scientist from the University of Iowa working on the study. identifying new autism genes.

Linn County wins national communication award

Linn County’s communications department won the City-County Communications and Marketing Association (3CMA) Award of Excellence…

Johnson County inclusive economic plan focuses on BIPOC-owned businesses

An Inclusive Economic Development plan by Astig Planning is looking to uplift minority-owned businesses in…

Council chambers at Emma J. Harvat Hall in Iowa City in Johnson County on Aug. 16, 2022.

Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation approves more than $1.8M in grants

The Board of Directors of the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation recently approved $1.84 million…

GCRCF

Hometown Pride program to provide community coaching to five Iowa towns

A new partnership between the East Central Iowa Council of Governments (ECICOG) and Keep Iowa…

Hometown Pride

Iowa Women’s Foundation announces $3 million Legacy Fund

The Iowa Women’s Foundation (IWF) is launching the public phase of a campaign that will…

Iowa Women's Foundation founders gather for their event.

Corridor businesses, leaders named Prometheus Awards finalists

Businesses and influential figures throughout the Corridor are finalists for the 2022 Prometheus Awards, presented…

2022 TAI Prometheus Awards

PepsiCo, ADM agree to regenerative agriculture partnership

PepsiCo and Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) agreed to a seven and a half year strategic commercial agreement…

Regenerative agriculture.