Editorials
CBJ Editorial: Scrap the proposed natural gas power plant
Mark Twain was quoted as saying: “Buy land, they aren’t making any more of it.” Fortunately, early leaders in Cedar Rapids heeded this advice and acquired a significant amount of land in the very southwestern portion of the city to…
Preamble to Most Influential
In next week’s issue, we will publish our annual list of the region’s most influential…
Large-scale solar is the new bugaboo
Nuclear power in the 1970s became a bugaboo with the not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) citizenry and especially…
Strike lessons and lingering questions
We are pleased that the United Auto Workers (UAW) union strike with Deere & Co.…
The Armstrong legacy continues
It was recently reported that the Esther and Robert Armstrong Charitable Trust, established in 2002,…
Infrastructure bill is good legislation
There is rarely a piece of federal legislation enacted without some burdensome unintended consequences or…
Deere strike continues
We were disappointed United Auto Workers (UAW) members in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas rejected a…
No surprise with labor poll
Any economist or pollster worth their salt can make questions, and their corresponding data, fit…
Recognizing younger leaders
This issue celebrates 40 of the region’s best and brightest leaders under the age of…
COVID funds are flowing
Unfortunately, now isn’t the time to question the massive amounts of COVID monies allocated by…
Coe makes right choice
Congratulations to Coe College and its board of trustees for selecting David Hayes as its…
Pappajohn’s amazing legacy
We continue to believe that entrepreneurialism should be the primary economic development strategy for the…
Small town, big win
Attention for big projects and economic development wins (and losses) tend to get overemphasized in…
Employers’ vaccine mandate unwise
We agree with President Joe Biden that nearly all Americans should get the COVID-19 vaccine.…
Another regional visioning effort
The Corridor region has traditionally struggled to come up with a clear regional vision or…
Changing the health care landscape
The landscape of the region’s ultra-competitive health care industry got a jolt last week when…