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St. Ambrose president Amy Novak and Mount Mercy president Todd Olson sign a "strategic combination" agreement on Thursday, Aug. 1. CREDIT ANNIE SMITH BARKALOW

Editorial: Mount Mercy’s merger with St. Ambrose advances

The idea of merging two businesses is often based on achieving more growth, reducing costs, increasing market share and diversifying operations. And, ideally the markets the two entities serve don’t overlap too much. This is much the same for merging…

Changing tide of capitalism

CBJ Editorial Over the past several years there has been a change by some of…

Capitalism

A big loss with Toyota Financial Services

CBJ Editorial The community will need to rely on its sunny disposition now that Toyota…

Toyota Financial Services

UIHC’s questionable NL hospital

CBJ Editorial One of the biggest economic advantages of the Corridor is our health care…

Listen to Janet Yellen

To best gauge how legislation might impact public policy, it is often useful to listen…

Big glass ceiling breaks

Two significant glass ceiling barriers were broken over the past several weeks. First, and most…

Helping CR businesses

While many communities do this, it was nevertheless nice to see the city of Cedar…

Learning from ICR’s failure

The joint economic development venture between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City was supposed to attract…

Downs, Hayworth land city leader awards

We have long thought that the Corridor is blessed with some of the best city…

Downs, Hayworth land city leader awards

We have long thought that the Corridor is blessed with some of the best city…

Job market gains a hopeful sign

While COVID-19 isn’t going away anytime soon, we are heartened that Iowa’s unemployment rate continues…