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5 digital marketing trends to help grow your business
By Sherry Bonelli / Guest Column
When it comes to digital marketing, the only certainty is uncertainty. With constantly changing digital marketing platforms, new technologies...
Class-action rental suit settled in Iowa City
A rental property managed by Apartments Downtown on South Gilbert Street in Iowa City is shown last week. The rental agency has reached a...
New logistics park could improve efficiency
A CRANDIC Railway locomotive goes through the railway's Smith-Dows yard in Cedar Rapids, which is adjacent to the site of the proposed $46 million...
Begin the conversation of making medical decisions
By Mike Heinrich/Guest Column
What would you do if you needed someone to speak on your behalf due an injury or illness? Have you made...
Health Care: Begin conversation of making medical decisions
By Michael Heinrich
What would you do if you needed someone to speak on your behalf due an injury or illness? Have you made arrangements with someone close...
The nature and effects of employment
By John Langhorne / Guest Column
Recently the government reported the economy added almost 300,000 new jobs. This is very good news as the labor...
Mid-Year Economic Review: 10 Biggest Stories of 2016
CRST Tower in downtown Cedar Rapids. PHOTO/ADAM MOORE
With the first half of 2016 behind us, the year, which had been predicted to see a...
Mid-Year Economic Review: Corridor stocks paced markets in first half
Tanger Outlet Williamsburg shown in an undated photo. The outlet's owner, Tanger Factory, had one of the Corridor's best-performing stocks in the first half...
Simpson Furniture reupholsters as Art Van
Dale Emmert, president of Art Van in Coralville, speaks to an audience at the store's grand re-opening on July 14. His wife, Executive Vice...
Pokémon game fad blurs fantasy, reality
By Joe Sheller / Guest Column
In the weeks before RAGBRAI my training bicycle rides, especially in the late afternoons in downtown Cedar Rapids, began...