A major Corridor attraction arrives
CBJ Editorial
Steve Shriver, the well-known business owner and serial entrepreneur from Cedar Rapids, sagely advised, “Don’t open an event venue during a pandemic,” during...
Media lessons from the derecho
By Joe Coffey | The Fifth Estate
When you study each generation’s “where were you when” stories, like the JFK assassination or 9/11, you’ll notice...
General Mills project sends positive signal
CBJ Editorial
An award of tax incentives for General Mills in Cedar Rapids by the state’s economic development board on Aug. 21 didn’t attract much...
A Duane Arnold Energy Center eulogy
CBJ Editorial
When a prominent business or community leader dies or retires in ordinary times, there is a funeral or reception to honor them. But...
Replacing our ‘flyover’ image
CBJ Editorial
The derecho that ravaged much of the Corridor, especially Cedar Rapids and Marion, has caused much lamentation that the national news neglected this...
Four lessons from coronavirus for improving work performance
By John Graham | Guest Column
“The comfort zone is the dead zone,” says Mike Manes, a business consultant in New Iberia, Louisiana. If we’ve...
A Big (Ten) loss
CBJ Editorial
First came the COVID-19 pandemic, then the destructive derecho storm, and now the loss of the University of Iowa’s fall football season.
“The mental...
Don’t write off TikTok just yet
By Joe Coffey | The Fifth Estate
Before you declare that TikTok isn’t your thing, consider that you’ve been through this before.
Twitter was for tech...
Don’t write off TikTok just yet
By Joe Coffey | The Fifth Estate
Before you declare that TikTok isn’t your thing, consider that you’ve been through this before.
Twitter was for tech...
Posturing for points against Big Tech
CBJ Editorial
Every few years Congress conducts a parade of successful business executives through committee hearings to lambast them and score political points.
It is usually...