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Owner Nordex, spurred by federal tax incentives, says it will hire about 100 workers there.

Using a student-teacher model for therapists in training, the grant-funded Telepsychology Training Clinic at the University of Iowa has offered free, short-term counseling to more than 200 Iowans in 17 counties.

Can Shed’s new app-based program, BottleDrop Iowa, started June 1 and already has 600 users signed up to drop off recycling when its convenient for them. No more waiting in lines and they get paid electronically.

On Friday, volunteers gathered at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Cedar Rapids, forming a “bucket brigade” to move 21,700 pairs of shoes that were donated to help His Hands Free Clinic, which provides free care to people without insurance.

After years of delays for mental competency proceedings and from efforts to keep his statements to police from being used at trial, Anthony Depolis, 34, on Friday pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of his wife in July 2020.

Lacey Schroeder has been hired as the new Uptown Marion program director starting Aug. 21. She succeeds Brooke Prouty.

“I would say from the climate standpoint, if we’re not growing ethanol here in the U.S., and that increases the share from Brazil, they will cut down rainforests, and that is not environmentally friendly to do,” the congresswoman said. “So it makes sense in Iowa.”

Lawsuits by injured workers and an investor are set for trial starting next year, and more lawsuits are possible.