DES MOINES — Representatives for Iowa labor unions and the state's construction industry urged lawmakers to hit the brakes on a proposal to lower the tax rates businesses pay to fund benefits for unemployed workers. House Republican lawmakers on Thursday advanced House Study Bill 735 in order to gather more information about its potential impact. Rep. Dave Deyoe, R-Nevada, who chaired the ...
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A Woodbury company says it paid $735,000 to a prominent Twin Cities construction firm only to find out later that the money was never received because of an alleged cybercrime. The payment was supposed to cover construction expenses for a new office and warehouse in South St. Paul. Instead, the project's developer, Beck Properties Minnesota, has been hit with more than $530,000 in liens by ...
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SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration said on Friday it plans to rebuild two Illinois prisons, including the nearly century-old Stateville Correctional Center just southwest of Chicago, as part of a nearly $1 billion project scheduled to be completed over the next three to five years. The administration said it anticipates Stateville, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago in Crest ...
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A real estate developer who has converted an abandoned power plant and a vacant hospital into apartment complexes will do the same with the twin office towers of Central Park Plaza in downtown Omaha. Todd and Mary Heistand's NuStyle Development has purchased the matching 15-story brick buildings along South 15th Street between Farnam and Douglas Streets, which have overlooked Gene Leahy Mall ...
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The Chicago Bears committed to contribute more than $2 billion to build a new downtown stadium, shifting from plans to construct a facility in Arlington Heights, president Kevin Warren announced Monday. "The Chicago Bears are committed to contributing over $2 billion to build a stadium and improve open spaces for all families, fans and the general public to enjoy in the city of Chicago," ...
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Recovering from a disaster on the scale of the 2019 floods takes time, even decades. Five years after the March 2019 flood, The World-Herald revisited some of the places affected to see how far they've come. Omaha-area levees in better shape after millions in fixes Most of the Omaha metro area did well during the floods and would do so again in a repeat of 2019, said John Winkler, general ...
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As construction moves forward on a $1 billion recycled paperboard manufacturing plant in Waco, a Michigan plant with a production line Waco's is based on faces a $600 million federal air pollution lawsuit. In Waco, teams of crane operators and construction workers are assembling metal girders into the framework of the new Graphic Packaging International facility about as fast as trucks can ...
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Mar. 4—DIXON — Members of the public had a chance to weigh in on a Virginia-based company's special use permit request to build Phase 2 of what would be one of the largest solar facilities in the country during a Feb. 28 public hearing before the Lee County Zoning Board of Appeals. Hexagon Energy LLC, doing business in Illinois as Steward Creek Solar LLC, is seeking a special use permit from ...
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Ramsey County officials have long debated the pros and cons of running passenger rail down West Seventh Street from the downtown St. Paul Union Depot to the Mall of America in Bloomington. With new cost estimates and projected travel times in hand, a key advisory committee on Thursday voted to release three options for public comment. Following a public engagement process, the policy advisory ...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — One by one the women walked onto the field for the first time, shortly before they departed for a warm-weather camp in Florida, and gazed at the stands towering above them on three sides and the scoreboard looming over them on the fourth. For the first time, they felt as if they were home. That's because for the first time in the history of the National Women's Soccer ...
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