04 Mar 2003

Davenport School Board Seeking Candidates

By Joe Collins
• The Davenport Community School District Board is seeking candidate letters of interest to fill the board vacancy left by the resignation of Anne Losasso. The letter should be addressed to the school board and include the candidate's name, home address, phone number, e-mail, personal and/or professional background, and the reason he or she is interested in serving on the board.
25 Feb 2003

Iowa Senate Considers Flat Tax

By Joe Collins
• A proposal was unveiled in the Iowa Senate to replace Iowa's individual income-tax system with a single income tax rate of 3.5 percent, instead of the current "progressive" system with different rates for different income levels.
18 Feb 2003

Buffalo Seeks to Join River Trails

By Joe Collins
• At a Buffalo City Council meeting in January, city leaders voted to seek funding for the Buffalo Mississippi River Trail. The trail would become an integral part of two nationwide trail systems: the headwaters-to-the-gulf Mississippi River Trail and the coast-to-coast American Discovery Trail.
11 Feb 2003

Susan G. Komen Foundation Announces Awards

By Joe Collins
• The Quad Cities affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has announced its 2003 grant recipients for projects supporting breast-cancer education, screening, and treatment of the medically undeserved.
04 Feb 2003

GAO Report Exposes DARE as Complete Failure

By Joe Collins
• According to a General Accounting Office (GAO) report evaluating the long-term effectiveness of the DARE program, DARE does not influence graduates to refrain from experimenting with illicit drugs. DARE receives an estimated $230 million in federal and corporate subsidies to offer its curriculum in approximately 80 percent of public schools.
27 Jan 2003

Drug Czar Dumps $4 Million into Super Bowl Advertising

By Joe Collins
• According to reports published in AdAge magazine, the office of the White House Drug Czar spent more than $4 million to air anti-drug public-service announcements during this past weekend's Super Bowl broadcast.
21 Jan 2003

Iowa Senators Unite Against Total Information Awareness Project

By Joe Collins
• U.S. Senators from Iowa Charles Grassley (a Republican) and Tom Harkin (a Democrat) joined a group of their upper-chamber colleagues supporting legislation introduced by Senator Russell Feingold (a Wisconsin Democrat) on the development of the controversial Total Information Awareness (TIA) project.
14 Jan 2003

Gambling Boats Might Face Tax Increase

By Joe Collins
• One of the tasks Iowa lawmakers will have to deal with involves an Iowa Supreme Court decision from June that it was unconstitutional to tax racetrack casinos at a higher rate - 32 percent - than riverboat casinos, which are taxed at 20 percent.
07 Jan 2003

Winckler Named Fellow by Leadership Institute

By Joe Collins
• State Representative Cindy Winckler (D-Davenport) was recently selected as a fellow by the Flemming Leadership Institute, a program that trains emerging state legislators from across the country. Winckler joins a bipartisan group of 30 legislators in their first or second terms who have demonstrated superior leadership ability, dedication to public service, and a commitment to use government to implement practical policy solutions.
23 Dec 2002

Habitat for Humanity Dedicates 25th Quad Cities Home

By Joe Collins
• December 21 marked the dedication of Habitat for Humanity-Quad Cities' 25th home. The house is located on Street "A" in Moline and will be home to Elizabeth Thompson and her three sons. Thompson will making a down payment and signing a 20-year mortgage, and has completed at least 250 hours of "sweat equity" (volunteer time) working on her home, other homes under construction, and other Habitat activities.

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