Monthly Archives: April 2018
Working for a Living: The minimum wage fight continues
Protesters hold a mini-protest at the Iowa Statehouse calling for a $15 minimum wage during Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Condition of the State address on...
CBJ Q&A: Mary Wheeler of Horizons
By Adam Moore
adam@corridorbusiness.com
New Horizons CEO Mary Wheeler returned from the Twin Cities last summer after close to two decades in the region’s human services...
Quincy Recycle builds a better recycling stream
Quincy Recycle General Manager Chad Crawford (left) and Sales Manager Alan Schumacher stand beside some of the large bales of shredded paper fiber ready...
Zero Energy Wall Systems to reorganize with VC backing
A Zero Energy-produced wall panel is lowered into place on the Coralville Strip in a 2015 photo. PHOTO ADAM MOORE
By Dave DeWitte
dave@corridorbusiness.com
Zero Energy Wall...
Metal tariffs causing mayhem for brewers, builders
Corridor steel and aluminum users battle uncertainty, volatility with new import tariffs
By Katherine Carlon
katharine@corridorbusiness.com
Businesses around the Corridor expect new tariffs on steel and aluminum...
Will Africa be ‘the next Asia’ for trade?
Dimy Doresca of the UI's Institute for International Business points at Africa on a map of the world in his office. The continent has...
Farmers brace as China levies retaliatory tariffs
Farmer Dave Walton, of Walton Farms, shown in a Cedar County field last October. “For us personally, any sort of trade war would be...