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Michael Chevy Castranova
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News Jan. 24, 2023 2:30 pm125d ago
Why give tax incentives to ethanol companies, Iowa State University economist Dave Swenson reasoned, when they’re going to have to …
News Dec. 30, 2021 3:07 pm515d ago
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 am2311d ago
‘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 pm2320d ago
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 am2325d ago
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 am2339d ago
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 am2353d ago
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 am2367d ago
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 pm2381d ago
A couple weeks ago I picked up at the Seattle airport a newly released paperback copy of ‘The Road to …
News Jan. 24, 2023 2:57 pm125d ago
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 am2409d ago
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 am2423d ago
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 pm360d ago
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 pm2452d ago
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 pm2465d ago
In 1995, a robber named McArthur Wheeler stuck up a pair of Pittsburgh banks without the benefit of a ski …