Ra Ra Riot The future of Ra Ra Riot sounds as if it's in doubt.

The Envy Corps The Envy Corps hail from Iowa, but the plan is to try to make a splash in Great Britain before the United States.

A SPECIAL NOTE TO THE CLASS OF 2047

Welcome to the Federalized Educational & Socialization Indoctrination System of the Great American Imperium. The Senior Lifetime Bureaucrats in charge of programming your minds to ensure your Obedience and Usefulness to the State have officially prepared this History Textbook "for the children."

I'm a big fan of Rock Island/Milan School District #41. Now and in the past it has provided quality education for the community, my children included, and leads the Quad Cities in any number of educational areas.

But I cannot support the February 5 referendum to restructure the district's schools.

Reader issue #668 When my mother saw the 1995 movie adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking, she was comfortable with the execution of the character Matthew Poncelet (played by Sean Penn) once he admitted his guilt.

Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin Philip Dickey had a burning question about Huckleberry's, the pizza place in downtown Rock Island that his band, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, will be playing next week.

It was not about the size of the room, or the setup, or the acoustics.

"Is it really good pizza?" he asked.

Mason Proper Mason Proper's debut album, There Is a Moth in Your Chest, is utterly scattershot. It's a 12-course meal for which there appears to have been little thought put into the progression or the entirety.

It is in that way a mess. What's striking is that almost all the tracks, separately, feel close to perfect.

Kaitlin Sirois - Colors of the Slough The Bucktown Center for the Arts (225 East Second Street in downtown Davenport) will host a Final Friday event on January 25, showcasing photography, music, and comedy from Augustana College students.

While I still think things will eventually calm down and Governor Rod Blagojevich's insistence that senior citizens be given free rides on all mass-transit systems will one day be viewed as a welcomed entitlement, it's obvious that lots and lots of Illinoisans don't feel that way right now.

Nearly 3,500 Iowans became new homeowners in 2007 with the assistance of the Iowa Finance Authority's low-interest loan program FirstHome. The program offers qualified first-time home-buyers affordable mortgage financing with a low, fixed interest rate and charges no discount points or origination fees. In calendar year 2007, a record 3,485 Iowans used FirstHome. This was an increase of nearly 500 loans from 2006 and was almost 1,000 loans greater than in 2005. In Scott County, 217 loans were closed for a total of more than $20 million. For more information, look at (http://www.iowafinanceauthority.gov ).

 

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