Katharine Carlon's stories

2020 throwback: IDT joins effort to produce coronavirus test materials
This article was originally published March 16, 2020. The CBJ is revisiting some of the biggest stories from the last 20 years, in celebration of our anniversary. Coralville-based Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has stepped into the void as federal health…
Best Local ISP: Mediacom
Seven-time Best Local Internet Service Provider Mediacom is on a roll, with four back-to-back wins…
Best Business Consulting: RSM US LLP
A CBJ Best of Hall of Fame member for Best Accounting Firm, RSM US LLP…
Best Commercial Cleaning/Janitorial Service: Clean Sweep of Iowa City
With its second win in as many years, Clean Sweep Iowa City is clearly living…
Best Credit Union: GreenState Credit Union
GreenState’s focus on members rather than shareholders and its goal of putting money back into…
Best Engineering Firm: Axiom Consultants
Axiom Consultants is having a good year. Fresh off being named the CBJ’s 2021 Fastest…
Progress and possible pain
For Esther George, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, the…
FedEx project brings ‘new chapter of growth’ to Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a term sheet with FedEx Ground…

Cobra Metals to redevelop vacant building as new headquarters
Cobra Metals, a Pinnacle Engineering spinout, will redevelop property at 1203 Rockford Road SW in…

Potential solutions to Iowa’s child care dilemma
At a pair of town halls hosted by the state’s Child Care Task Force, parents…
A crisis in ‘all corners of the state’
When COVID-19 struck the nation in the spring of last year, Amy Mayfield Lusche was…
2021 list highlights Corridor’s resiliency
For a year in which nearly nothing was normal, the CBJ’s 14th annual Fastest Growing…
Waste not, want not
It powers all seven villages in the Amana Colonies, provides high quality fertilizer to farms…
Beating the market: UI’s student-managed Henry Fund wins national kudos
Some of the nation’s savviest investors reside right here in the Corridor. In fact, they’re…

Restaurant operators say they ‘can’t win for losing’
When the Centers for Disease Control opened the floodgates May 13 to vaccinated Americans getting…

J-TEC names former NewBo Market exec as general manager
J-TEC Associates of Cedar Rapids has appointed Scott Kruger as its general manager. Mr. Kruger…
