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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 Mar. 16, 2015 11:46 am
About a half-dozen years ago, during the depth of the Great Recession, for a story I was writing on supply-chain …
News Feb. 28, 2015 6:00 pm
It was without a trace of irony when my wife said, ‘It was in the news.” I’d pointed out what …
News Feb. 14, 2015 6:00 pm
My grandfather, Ralph E. Miller, after various careers as, among other choices, a chicken farmer, gas station owner and airplane …
News Jan. 31, 2015 9:00 pm
A cartoonist friend of mine tells of having been a passenger in a small plane that crashed and resulted in …
Books Jan. 24, 2015 8:00 pm
If you’ve yet to be captivated by the graphic novel, here’s the absolute place to start. IDW Publishing has just …
News Jan. 17, 2015 6:30 pm
I could be seriously wrong about this, but I’d put down money that one of the biggest stories of the …
Columns Jan. 3, 2015 8:00 pm
OK, it probably was a silly TV program, but we watched ‘Selfie” up until it got canceled and then resurfaced …
Columns Dec. 21, 2014 7:00 am
Things are going to get easier, at least according to what I’ve been reading lately. I just figured you’d want …
News Dec. 6, 2014 5:00 pm
Just admit it: No matter that casual Friday took over the whole workweek some years back, and that T-shirts and …
Columns Nov. 23, 2014 6:00 am
This is it, the big showdown for retail. It used to be that the general consumer retail industry geared up …
Columns Nov. 9, 2014 5:00 am
Every Sunday this month. starting on page 1A, we’ve been running installments of our series titled Aging in Iowa. The …
Columns Oct. 26, 2014 6:00 am
Alan Turing suddenly is everywhere. The English mathematician is the subject of a new movie, ‘The Imitation Game,” about the …
Columns Oct. 12, 2014 1:01 am
Where does the employer’s responsibility – or, put another way, blame – start and end when an employee misbehaves – …
Books Oct. 5, 2014 1:01 am
In every review I’ve read over the past couple decades about cartoonist Yukito Kishiro’s series about a martial arts-trained cyborg …
Columns Sep. 28, 2014 1:01 am
For many, the hard times that have befallen Radio Shack do not come as a shock, just as we weren’t …