116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Michael Chevy Castranova
I’ve been an editor, writer and editorial cartoonist having worked in Columbus, Ohio, western Michigan and Chicago before moving to Eastern Iowa in 2011. My areas of coverage have been mainly — though not limited to — business and economics, the arts and the health care industry. And a lot of moderating of panels and public-facing interviews.
Latest Articles by Michael Chevy Castranova
News Dec. 30, 2021 3:07 pm
Dear Mr. Sorkin: First, let me say I’m a big fan. I loved the writing in ‘Sports Night.’ I often …
Business News Jan. 29, 2017 10:00 am
‘If you believe in it and if you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.” – Ray Kroc …
News Jan. 20, 2017 6:29 pm
CEDAR RAPIDS – More than 100 informational pickets, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1362, gathered near Rockwell …
News Jan. 15, 2017 9:00 am
This is one of those anecdotes that you’re probably not going to believe, for several perfectly understandable reasons, but that …
News Jan. 1, 2017 11:00 am
The building — no matter that we ran the home office of 13-county business-to-business newspaper out of it for more …
News Dec. 18, 2016 10:00 am
After near-on precisely 32 years here, George C. Ford will retire from The Gazette at the end of this year, …
News Dec. 4, 2016 9:26 am
I’ve had the same financial adviser-broker for forever. I’ve half-joked it might be the longest sustained relationship I’ve had in …
News Nov. 20, 2016 1:00 pm
A couple weeks ago I picked up at the Seattle airport a newly released paperback copy of ‘The Road to …
News Nov. 6, 2016 9:00 am
There a sequence in Orson Welles’s marvelous movie ‘The Magnificent Ambersons,” set in the early years of the 20th century, …
News Oct. 23, 2016 11:00 am
You don’t trust Clinton. You don’t trust Trump. But do your employees trust you? You say that’s not a fair …
News Oct. 9, 2016 11:03 am
Everything is about the flood. This is what I tell newcomers to the newspaper. Everything in Cedar Rapids is about …
News Jun. 3, 2022 1:21 pm
It happened again just a couple weeks ago. I was talking with someone about the ongoing mishegoss that’s resulted from …
News Sep. 10, 2016 9:00 pm
As best as I can figure, management megastar Peter Drucker (1909-2005) never actually said, ‘Culture eats strategy for lunch.” Or …
News Aug. 28, 2016 5:00 pm
In 1995, a robber named McArthur Wheeler stuck up a pair of Pittsburgh banks without the benefit of a ski …
News Aug. 14, 2016 5:00 am
Gov. Terry Branstad calls them haters – those who see a very different picture in the current state affairs of …