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• Angry Culver
  Sep 5, 2010 — Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
  Rod Boshart Sep. 5, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- DES MOINES -- An angry Gov.
• Parra shares her recipes
  Sep 5, 2010 — The Hawk Eye
  Leticia Parra began earning that respect at a tender age in Chihuahua, Mexico. Dona Letty has the potential to make 27 products, all of which come from Parra's recipes. It's going to taste homemade," Guitterez said.
• Six spar in supervisors race
  Sep 4, 2010 — Ottumwa Courier
  We're a positive community, we're not falling apart, but our secondary roads are falling apart. Thordarson spent 12 years as a Bloomfield city council member, he said, and represented the community during economic development discussions. I am known to stand up and ask questions that people are afraid to ask.
• Entrepreneurial spirit growing in Centerville
  Sep 3, 2010 — Daily Iowegian
  All of those areas." Ziegler's services are free. He covers a 10-county area, including Appanoose County.
• Hopes pinned on wind energy to replace Iowa's lost manufacturing jobs
  Sep 3, 2010 — The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
  David Osterberg, executive director of the Iowa Policy Project in Iowa City, said wind and other forms of renewable energy have the potential to replace manufacturing jobs lost over the past 20 years. 'Nothing in the energy sector is growing as fast as wind in the world,' Osterberg said. 'It's growing at a rate that doubles every three years, andI don't see that slowing down.' Barnes Manufacturing Services in Marion, which lost business when Goss Graphic Systems in Cedar Rapids closed...
• Iowa raises jobless insurance costs
  Sep 3, 2010 — The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
  The Trust Fund has a balance of $507 million.
• State board puts off Delhi funding decision
  Sep 3, 2010 — The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
  Dave DeWitte Sep. 3, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- Gov.
• Hinkle sees better economic days ahead
  Sep 2, 2010 — The Hawk Eye
  We certainly have some nice things going on with some of our existing industries," Hinkle said. "Some of those things have been announced, some of those have not. Also four organizations have expressed interested in an available shell building at in the business park.
• Longtime Priority One president leaves his post
  Sep 1, 2010 — The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
  Seckman joined Priority One in 1992 as assistant vice president/project development. He was appointed president of the organization in 2000. Friction developed in June between the Cedar Rapids City Council, Mayor Ron Corbett and Priority One when the economic development organization worked with the City of Hiawatha to land a new Go Daddy facility. Despite an eleventh hour bid by Cedar Rapids to attract the jobs to downtown Cedar Rapids, Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons stayed with...
• Ready for new challenges in C.R.
  Aug 29, 2010 — The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
  About 1,800 jobs there, 4,000 there, he says. And what does it have in common with Cedar Rapids? Is this the stuff of every City Hall's dreams? I'm for positive development that helps move the community forward.' Plenty of experience Pomeranz's professional life to date didn't start and end in West DesMoines.