22 Feb 2005

Best of the Quad Cities 2004: Business

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Alternative health-care provider 1. Dr. Dennis Hagemann, Hagemann Chiropractic Center 2. Palmer College of Chiropractic & Palmer Chiropractic Clinics 3. Deere Road Chiropractic Ltd. 3.
22 Feb 2005

Best of the Quad Cities 2004: Civics and Media

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Community service organization 1. United Way of the Quad Cities Area 2. Gilda's Club Quad Cities 3. American Red Cross of the Quad Cities Area Best Community-Service Organization
22 Feb 2005

Best of the Quad Cities 2004: Arts, Culture, and Leisure

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Local theatre organization 1. Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse 2. Quad-City Music Guild 3. ComedySportz Best Local Theatre Organization
15 Feb 2005

Davenport School Board Selects Possible Superintendent

By Joe Collins
• The Davenport Community Schools Board has extended an employment offer to Bernard Oliver, one of four finalist candidates for the superintendent position. According to President Patt Zamora, the board last week entered negotiations with Dr.
15 Feb 2005

Here Come the Low-Mileage Hybrids

By David Morris
The September introduction by Ford of a hybrid SUV marks the end of the beginning of the long-evolving saga of the hybrid electric vehicle. After more than two decades of public and private initiatives, the hybrid is in the marketplace.
07 Feb 2005

Davenport Fire Department Receives Homeland Security Grant

By Joe Collins
• The Davenport Fire Department will receive $227,629 in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to increase the effectiveness of fire prevention and to support firefighter safety. Specifically, these grants help Iowa communities fund firefighting equipment, firefighter-health and -safety programs, enhancements to emergency-medical-service programs, and fire-prevention and -safety programs.
07 Feb 2005

Suing Over Sue

By Jeff Ignatius
In 1990, Peter Larson paid Maurice Williams $5,000 for some fossilized dinosaur bones that his team had found on Williams' property in South Dakota. It wasn't a speculative buy. "We knew it was really good," Larson said in a phone interview last week.
01 Feb 2005

Iowa Traffic Fatalities Lowest Since 1945

By Joe Collins
• The Iowa Department of Transportation reports that Iowans have achieved a major milestone in highway safety, with preliminary data indicating 380 fatalities occurring in 2004. This is the lowest number of fatalities since 1945.
01 Feb 2005

Return of the Rock Island Riverfront

By Jeff Ignatius
Re-development of abandoned industrial sites is, by now, old hat. But what might be happening in the coming years in Rock Island is something fresh. What's unusual is that the Quad City Industrial Center isn't abandoned at all.
01 Feb 2005

That Funky Bead Business

By Jill Walsh
Leigh Funk loves glass beads. I could tell from her appropriately named Web site (http://www.funky-beads.com), a kind of glass-bead heaven that features photos of Funk's original designs, including sea creatures, food & drink, animals, holiday themes, and whimsical pieces.

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