Displaying all 2 Episode of Registered with the tag “business”.
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How Iola moves forward after the recent Gates layoffs
October 19th, 2025 | 43 mins 16 secs
allen county, business, gates, industry, iola, layoffs, thrive allen county
The recent layoffs at Iola’s Gates facility shocked many in our community. In this week’s episode of Registered, Thrive Allen County’s economic development director Camille Lavon discusses the state of local business and industry with the Register’s Tim Stauffer.
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John Brocker says he knows the right people
July 23rd, 2020 | 27 mins 29 secs
allen county, allen county kansas, business, infrastructure, internet, iola, politics, realtor
John Brocker has been a businessman and realtor in Iola for 45 years. He served as president of the Kansas Association of Realtors in 2012. This year, he’s running for a seat on the Allen County commission, the same seat he briefly held until losing to Bruce Symes, the District 3 incumbent, in 2018.
In today’s episode, the fifth in our series covering local candidates, we speak with Brocker about what’s motivating him to run again, his priorities if he wins the Aug 4 Republican primary against Symes, and how his business background would guide his decisions as commissioner.