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.
NewBoCo shares plans for expanding programs, supporting start-ups
Bundled-up tree-hunters with mittened kids in tow lined the road along the Ely evergreen market before it opened at 9 a.m. Friday. And at Solon’s Handley’s Holiday Hillside Inc., about 30 minutes south, dozens of parked vehicles squeezed the gravel road from both sides for as far as the eye could see.
A section of Marion Boulevard is closed as construction crews install girders for the new pedestrian bridge that will span the main Marion road.
Stocks closed sharply lower on Wall Street Friday, after a coronavirus variant from South Africa appeared to be spreading across the globe and the E.U. suspended air travel from southern Africa
A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa is leading to a new round of travel
Cedar Rapids Girls Who Code chapter started to help bring more women into computer science
Navigator, a Texas-based company, is proposing a 1,300-mile pipeline that would pass through 36 Iowa counties, including Linn, Benton, Cedar, Delaware and Iowa, capturing carbon dioxide at ethanol and fertilizer plants and transporting the liquid form of the gas to a sequestration site in western Illinois.
About a dozen long-term care facilities across Eastern Iowa have hired apprentices to fill open CNA positions. The program, facilitated through Kirkwood Community College, hopes to entice long-term employees locally by providing funding for their coursework and exam costs.
Shoppers are expected to pay on average of between 5 and 17 percent more for toys, clothing, appliances, TVs and other purchases on Black Friday this year.
Whatever your office arrangement, and even if working from home will not be a permanent option for your employees, remote work still presents a host of legal challenges for employers to consider.
Americans are doing the main thing that drives the U.S. economy — spending — but accelerating inflation is casting a pall.
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