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Bears and Bulls
Reporter: Editorial
Bulls
Congratulations to the handful of companies in the Corridor that made Inc.
magazine’s list of “America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies.” The
organizations from the Corridor that made the lists are: TMone in Iowa
City at No. 978, Geonetric in Cedar Rapids at No. 1,853, Raining Rose
in Cedar Rapids at No. 1,866, Greiner Buildings in Washington at No.
2,630, American Information Technology in Cedar Rapids at No. 2,652,
RuffaloCODY in Cedar Rapids at 3,552; Nolte Manufacturing of Hiawatha
at 3,705 and ME&V of Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids at 4,964.
Also, congratulations to Anthony Marlowe, the CEO of TMone, who was recognized as one of the 25 CEOs under 30 in the Inc.
5000 list. Mr. Marlowe, 28, is a hard-charging entrepreneur with great
skills and a passion for the Corridor. In a recent CBJ article he
stated, “It’s [the Corridor] an absolutely tremendous place to do
business from every perspective, from employees, costs, real estate,
the whole gamut.” Let’s hope we can keep talented entrepreneurs like
him in the Corridor.
Congratulations to Marcia Rogers, president of Management Resource Inc.
in Cedar Rapids and member of the Iowa Department of Economic
Development board, who received the inaugural Air New Zealand
Ambassador Award for her efforts to create a trade partnership between
New Zealand and the United States. It is creative approaches like hers
that will make the economies of Iowa and the United States stronger.
Bears
A group of residents in Iowa City recently formed an organization
called Citizens for Public Health to help raise money to construct a
new building for the University of Iowa’s College of Public Health.
This group wants to raise $15 million, the amount that Wellmark
considered donating to the UI, to help build this new facility. Anyone
who wants to help raise money for this worthy cause should be
encouraged, but this group is making a mockery of the challenges facing
the leaders of the UI and the College of Public Health in trying to
raise significant amounts of money. Instead of some practical approach,
they want to have 1 million Iowans each give $15. The chances of this
happening are zero. It again shows how out of touch some Iowa City
residents are with the rest of the state.
Even with delegate-taking threats by the national parties, state after
state continues to leapfrog ahead of the agreed-to nominating process
led by Iowa and New Hampshire. The most recent example was when Wyoming
Republicans moved their delegate-selection conventions to Jan. 5,
before the Iowa caucuses, which are scheduled for Jan. 14. New
Hampshire’s primary is supposed to take place eight days after Iowa’s
caucuses. Michigan is another state that has moved up its primaries.
They are now scheduled for Jan. 15. Some type of order needs to be
maintained.
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