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The Siecks pose for a family photo at Crescent Cove Respite & Hospice Home for Kids in Minneapolis in 2021. (From left) Shanna, Izabella, Mason, Colton and Curtis Sieck. Ms. Sieck said it was the last photograph they took as a family before Mason died. CREDIT JOY BY JO PHOTOGRAPHY

Grinnell family works to bring pediatric palliative care and hospice center to Iowa

A Grinnell family is working to bring a pediatric palliative care and hospice facility to Iowa. When Curtis and Shanna Sieck’s 7-year-old son, Mason, was nearing the end of his battle with Gardner syndrome in 2021, options for end-of-life care…

Training solar energy’s future workforce

It’s no secret that renewable energy generation has experienced exponential growth despite rising costs for…

Debate over 340B drug discount program continues

The 340B drug discount program, created in 1992 as part of the Veterans Health Care…

Maher Brothers Transfer & Storage celebrates 100 years

Moving has always been in the Maher Brothers Transfer & Storage DNA, but the mode…

Return to the office?

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to subside in both case numbers and hospitalizations, many Corridor…

Welcome to the club

Traditional service groups like Kiwanis and Rotary are not your grandfather’s clubs anymore. Instead, they…

Back to Basix

A couple of days after the grand re-opening of Basix, former owner Andrew “Belle” Harrison…

From computers to smoked meats

Tim Sines worked as a computer systems engineer for more than two decades. But there…

How federal loans altered the manufactured housing landscape 

As litigation director for Iowa Legal Aid, Alex Kornya has noticed the trend of large,…

Advocates fight for manufactured housing rights against Havenpark Communities

Candi Evans bought her mobile home with her husband in 1998. The two, hoping to…

Five years on, Tiffin’s Park Place is taking shape

In 2017, The Ders Group officially broke ground on Park Place, and although a lot…

Mutually beneficial

As many business sectors settle into a much more virtual work world, even as the…

A fresh look at regional economic development

The development of a new roadmap for economic development in East Central Iowa took the…

Black entrepreneurs navigate the business world

There are two things Candice Luter has learned since turning her part-time side hustle, where…

A crisis in mental health

The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the health care spotlight for the last two years, continuing…

Taking the good with the bad of the pandemic

Pandemics historically tend to change society and COVID-19 has been no exception, said Gerard Clancy,…