15 May 2001

Iowa Legislature Runs Up $196,000 Overtime Tab

By Joe Collins
• Based on the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau's estimate that it costs $28,000 per working day after a session is scheduled to end, the cost of the Iowa legislature's overtime comes to $196,000. (Legislators were scheduled to finish business on April 27.
08 May 2001

A Variety of Flood Aid Available

By Joe Collins
• U.S. Bank and Firstar Bank will offer discounted loans to individuals in cities and surrounding communities of Moorhead, Minnesota; Fargo and Wahpeton, North Dakota; and Davenport, Iowa. The discounted loans, which will be available April 30 through May 18, are designed for customers who have flood-related expenses or who need to repair their homes because of the rising waters.
08 May 2001

When Art Attacks

By Jeff Ignatius
This Friday's gallery hop in The District of Rock Island has a more aggressive flavor than past installments with the theme "Art Attack." The quarterly event kicks off at 5 p.m. and runs through 10 p.m., featuring dozens of artists.
01 May 2001

Davenport Awarded Brownfield Grant

By Joe Collins
• Davenport has been awarded a $250,000 grant by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assess brownfields, areas of former industrial sites. The area to be studied includes most of west Davenport in the vicinity of the Mississippi River and the area surrounding Nahant Marsh - the largest urban marsh on the upper Mississippi and a recently completed EPA Superfund project.
01 May 2001

Low-Power Radio: The Revolution Will Be Broadcast

By Tucker Teutsch
Publisher's Note: We picked up this story from a fellow independent paper, the San Antonio Current. This is critical information in the new and emerging economies of data, access and information.
24 Apr 2001

Special Needs Playground Added to Bettendorf's Rocket Park

By Administrator
• The Junior League of the Quad Cities is working in conjunction with the City of Bettendorf to add a play area in McManus Park (better known as Rocket Park) just off Interstate 74 to meet the needs of children with physical disabilities.
17 Apr 2001

Ozone Season Begins

By Joe Collins
• The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has resumed monitoring ground-level ozone, often called smog. State and local agencies use the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index to provide general information to the public about air quality and associated health effects.
17 Apr 2001

The Top 10 Censored Stories of 2000

By Alternet
Have you read the one about corporations planning to charge you hundreds of dollars a month for your tap water? Or the one about military "psychological operations" specialists manipulating viewers of CNN? What about the highly skilled programmers in Silicon Valley who, because they are immigrants, are laboring under sweatshop-like conditions? If none of these stories rings a bell, it's not because you've missed the latest e-mail hoax.
03 Apr 2001

Take a Good Look Around

By Todd McGreevy
Is anyone else getting tired of the world-according-to-the-armchair-quarterbacks-at-the- Quad-City-Times? Case in point: "Keeping Score in the Quality of Life," published on Sunday, March 25. Drawing on "the observations of hundreds of Quad Citians, scores of reports, and visits to other similarly sized U.
27 Mar 2001

Iowa Legislature Mulls Raising Sales Tax

By Joe Collins
• The Iowa House of Representatives will be looking at a proposal to raise the state's sales tax to 6 percent and use the money to pay for school construction and repair. Inspired by the success of a 1998 law that allowed counties to pass a 1-cent sales-tax increase to pay for school capital projects, the bill aims to provide property-tax relief and tax equity statewide.

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