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His Cedar Rapids basement is a fully equipped percussion studio with everything from simple snares through full drum kits, timpani and a full complement of xylophones and other mallet instruments.

One of the challenges Iowa long has had in luring new businesses — as well as new workers and residents — to the state from elsewhere in the nation, Debi Durham said, is that “we have not been properly introduced.”

City also looking into micro transit within Marion

The Iowa Organic Association will hold its annual meeting Dec. 1 in Marion with guest speakers Angela Tedesco, author of “Finding Turtle Farm: My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community Supported Agriculture,” and Dr. Andy Nish, medical director of the John Stoddard Cancer Center.

Hills Bank and Trust’s board of directors said Monday it has named Lisa Shileny as its president and chief operating officer, effective Nov. 8 of this year.

Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with Iowa and 39 other states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced Monday.

Amid growing concern about Chinese investment in U.S. agriculture, there has been a renewed push to limit and more closely monitor foreign ownership of farmland across the country.

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.