When
the City of Rock Island created its "Green Team" last year, one
thing it did was initiate an in-house recycling program.
Yes, the City of Rock Island - which likes to consider itself progressive - had no recycling program within city buildings.
Some recycling was done, said Tim Ridder, assistant to the public works director, the city's environmental-services coordinator, and the staff person who leads Green Team efforts. "It just wasn't uniform throughout the city," he said, and it wasn't being collected as a function of city government.
This isn't offered as proof that Rock Island is out-of-step. Rather, it shows how far the Quad Cities have come in the past year. Environmental initiatives range from obvious little things to multi-million-dollar projects, and it's evident that municipal government has gone green.
If
you're a fan of Bo Ramsey - the Iowa-based guitarist and producer
- you take what you can get in terms of records bearing his name.
REO
Speedwagon lead singer and primary songwriter Kevin Cronin said the
band spent more than three years making Find
Your Own Way Home, which
came out last year. "There was no pressure to release it sooner,"
he said last week. "There was no record company, no contract, none
of that bullshit. It was strictly a labor of love on our part."
Stacy
A. Cordery didn't want to rescue Alice Roosevelt Longworth from her
reputation.
