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Scott Cooley

2025 Forty Under 40: Scott Cooley

Scott Cooley Senior Wealth Advisor  |  Basepoint Wealth  |  AGE: 39 Residence: North Liberty Hometown: Washington Education: University of Iowa What was your first job? Paper route Who do you consider your local mentors? • Josh Oswald, financial advisor at…

Marion passes moratorium on certain commercial developments in fastest-growing areas

Even as the Marion City Council approved the final consideration of an ordinance imposing a…

City of Marion

Red cup rebellion: Iowa City Starbucks workers join strikes happening nationwide

On Thursday, Iowa City Starbucks employees picketed outside the Clinton Street Starbucks as part of…

A protester stands outside the downtown Iowa City Starbucks at 228 S. Clinton St.

Chocolate Shop owner, veteran Ben Davis receives SBA’s Impact Award

Ben Davis, co-owner of the Marion Chocolate Shop in Uptown Marion, was recognized with the…

Chocolate Shop Ben Davis SBA award

Solar utility projects seek approval in Johnson County

A solar utility project has its sights set in rural Johnson county, with the potential…

Site of the proposed solar utility project in Lone Tree.

Oral-B enters contract to purchase Kirkwood’s Iowa City campus

After 273 days on the market, Kirkwood Community College has announced a buyer for its…

Kirkwood's Iowa City campus, located at 1828 Lower Muscatine Road.

PinSeekers golf facility ready for business

Commuters on Interstate 380 may be wondering about the mammoth, 200-foot-tall netting that shoots into…

The outdoor driving range at Pinseekers uses Toptracer technology and features 10 Smart Target Greens that illuminate upon impact.

VIDEO TOUR: Pickle Palace inches closer to completion

The name “Pickle Palace” started as an inside joke. But as the 37,455-square-foot, three-story entertainment…

A view of the construction on the Pickle Palace's indoor courts from the building's second-floor balcony. CREDIT RICHARD PRATT

Putting Transamerica on the map

If a nationally-recognized insurance business with nearly 2,500 local employees can be considered a well-kept…

Transamerica national awards

Alliant rate increase proposal draws support, criticism at public comment meeting

Comments were nearly equally split between supporters and opponents as the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB)…

Alliant rate increase public comment Randy Walker

Mercy Iowa City sale to University of Iowa approved

University of Iowa’s acquisition of Mercy Iowa City was approved by bankruptcy court on Monday,…

CREDIT MERCY IOWA CITY

Czech Feather & Down returns to Cedar Rapids

A family-owned business, more than a century old, has made its way back to Cedar…

Dawn Schorg and her daughter Brittany Schorg, back row, and former owner Cookie Vanous, Dawn’s mother, are shown in the new location of Czech Feather & Down, 5907 16th Ave. SW, in Cedar Rapids.

First reading of Linn County ‘agritourism’ ordinance amendment approved

With little discussion, the Linn County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at a work session…

Wilson's Orchard main building agritourism ordinance

Local golf on course for more growth?

University of Iowa Hall of Fame golfer Sean McCarty has qualified for three major championships…

The CBJ's Corridor Executive Open invited the region's top executives out for a day of golf and networking on Tuesday, Aug. 15, at Brown Deer Golf Club, 1900 Country Club Drive, Coralville. CREDIT ALEXANDRA OLSEN

Supporters gather for dedication of HallMar Village senior living community

As supporters and staff gathered Thursday, Nov. 2 for a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony for…

HallMar Village exterior

First Linn County Food Symposium links local food communities together

The first Linn County Food Symposium linked nonprofits, farmers, producers, food service programs and food…

Emmaly Renshaw, executive director of Feed Iowa First and the symposium facilitator.