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Cottingham & Butler child care center poised to open next week in Dubuque

2 weeks ago | biztimes.biz | Elizabeth Kelsey

While the people who streamed through the hallways and classrooms of New Horizon Academy in Dubuque on Thursday are significantly older than the youngsters who will enroll there beginning next week, their age didn’t seem to put a damper on the excitement in the air. The employees of Dubuque-based Cottingham & Butler were taking their first look at the company’s new child care center, located at 799 Locust St., during an open house for Cottingham & Butler staff.
Rise & Dine: Bellevue inn blends history, comfort, theatrical flair

3 weeks ago | biztimes.biz | Elizabeth Kelsey

Rise & DineThe Telegraph Herald’s monthly Rise & Dine series highlights tri-state area bed-and-breakfasts. If you have a suggestion for a B&B that we should feature, contact reporter Elizabeth Kelsey at [email protected] or 563-588-5637.
US existing-home sales decline, marking worst April since 2009

3 weeks ago | biztimes.biz | Michael Sasso

U.S. sales of previously owned homes unexpectedly dropped in April to the slowest pace in seven months, restrained by ongoing affordability constraints and highlighting a lackluster start to the key spring selling season. Contract closings decreased 0.5% to an annualized rate of 4 million, according to National Association of Realtors data released recently. That fell short of the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists and marked the weakest April since 2009.
Riverboats

3 weeks ago | biztimes.biz | Dustin Kass

Dan and Peggy Reynolds enjoyed a pleasant Friday afternoon recently exploring downtown Dubuque. The couple drove from the Des Moines area that morning with the intention of checking out the city, but they didn’t really have a plan for their visit. They liked it that way. “It’s nice to just go with the flow sometimes,” Peggy said. They already visited several shops downtown and grabbed a bite to eat.
Book Review: Veteran journalist explores impact of private equity industry on US society

3 weeks ago | biztimes.biz | Ann Levin

Megan Greenwell was the editor in chief of Deadspin when it was acquired in 2019 by a Boston-based private equity firm. After three months of watching her new bosses make what seemed to her to be boneheaded decisions, she quit. Two months later, the staff followed her out the door. Within five years, the once popular online sports magazine known for its irreverent reporting had been sold to an obscure Maltese website.
AI ‘hallucinations’ are a growing problem for the legal profession

3 weeks ago | biztimes.biz | Michael Hiltzik

You’ve probably heard the one about the product that blows up in its creators’ faces when they’re trying to demonstrate how great it is. Here’s a ripped-from-the-headlines yarn about what happened when a big law firm used an AI bot product developed by Anthropic, its client, to help write an expert’s testimony defending the client. It didn’t go well. Anthropic’s chatbot, Claude, got the title and authors of one paper cited in the expert’s statement wrong, and injected wording errors elsewhere.
Bill regulating pharmacy benefit managers heads to governor’s desk

1 month ago | biztimes.biz | Elizabeth Kelsey

A bill placing restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers awaits Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signature after it passed the Iowa House this week, with local pharmacies and lawmakers saying the move will help keep small, local pharmacies afloat. The legislation restricts how PBMs, which serve as intermediaries between pharmaceutical manufacturers, insurers and pharmacies, can price drugs to local pharmacies.
‘We flow together’: Local moms, kids share in success of business ownership

1 month ago | biztimes.biz | Nick Joos

DYERSVILLE, Iowa — When Susan and Paul Oberbroeckling’s children were nearing the end of their high school careers, Susan’s mom helped her pick her next job. Why did a woman with an almost empty nest and a prior career in telecommunications decide to work at a small-town jewelry store? “She told me I had to,” Susan Oberbroeckling said of her mom, Beverly Flammang, who smiled. “Mother said come,” Flammang remembered.
Weekly commodity wrap-up

1 month ago | biztimes.biz | Walt Breitinger

In addition to tech stocks, crude oil and ethanol saw the sharpest rise on Thursday as President Trump announced that lower tariffs would be imposed on the U.K. and that they would, in turn, begin buying fuel ethanol from the U.S.The rally in crude continued through Friday on optimism that other trade deals and economies would benefit from progress made in Great Britain.
Farmers markets

1 month ago | biztimes.biz | Dustin Kass

Area farmers marketsIOWADubuque: 7 a.m. to noon Saturdays in May-September and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays in October, located on Iowa Street between 10th and 13th streets and around City Hall. Dubuque Millwork Night Market: 5 to 8 p.m. Thursdays, May 8, June 12, July 10, Aug. 14, Sept. 11 and Oct. 9, located on Jackson Street between Seventh and Ninth streets. Dyersville: 3 to 5 p.m. Thursdays, May 22 to Oct.