States, including Iowa, respond with harsher penalties
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States, including Iowa, respond with harsher penalties
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.
During a four-hour hearing Thursday, Brooke Rollins -- President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of agriculture -- was asked about tariffs, bird flu, the effect of mass deportations on the ag workforce, and rural development efforts.
The company that owns the only nuclear power plant in Iowa — located near Palo — indicated Friday it has moved to restore the site’s operating license.
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from Minnesota and Illinois are suing Deere & Co., claiming it engages in “unfair practices” relating to equipment repairs. The move follows years of advocacy and a formal complaint from National Farmers Union and locals in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.
A small pizza chain will be reopening its Cedar Rapids restaurant in a new location soon, where it will have much more than pizza.
The warehouses will be a size that’s not currently available in Cedar Rapids. City Economic Development Project Coordinator Scott Mather said city staff get inquiries at least monthly for warehouse space that’s immediately available, and these projects will help meet that demand.
Over the objections of Iowa state officials, federal regulators will require plans to confront heavy nitrate concentrations in rivers that provide drinking water to hundreds of thousands of Iowans.
Ribbon-cutting marks end of phase 2 in $25M project
Hiawatha facility to open this spring
Since 1893, it’s been a quarry office, a post office, a home, a pub
140 vendors will be selling their creations
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