27 Dec 2005

Resolve to Fight Predatory Lenders

By No Author
Want to do yourself and your family a favor this holiday season? Steer clear of car-title loans and related high-interest loan schemes. Need a good New Year's Resolution? Resolve to contact your state legislators and urge them to approve reforms to protect all Iowans from these high-interest loansharking schemes.
15 Nov 2005

"D" for "Disaster"

By Administrator
Now that the enrollment period for the new private Part D drug plans is upon us, Medicare recipients have clear evidence that "D" stands for "disaster." Reliance on private drug plans and other measures contained in the 2003 Medicare amendments is a disaster for Medicare recipients.
08 Nov 2005

Performance a Testament to Women's Courage

By Administrator
The Black Hawk College/Ebony Expressions production on October 28 of Healing Waters: I Will Carry My Sister's Pain observed October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month by prying open the eyes of the audience to the daily reality of pain, fear, abuse, and humiliation experienced by abused women as they struggle to raise children and carve out a life.
18 Oct 2005

Health-Care System Needs Fixing

By No Author
As a teacher, then an administrator, in the Davenport schools for 24 years, I was very concerned about the health of my students, as I saw many of them not receiving the preventive care that is so important for learning to occur.
11 Oct 2005

Cronies Should Be Saved for Unimportant Jobs

By No Author
In 2001, FEMA ranked a major hurricane strike on New Orleans as "among the three likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country," directly behind a terrorist strike on New York City. So what was done after that assessment? The Bush administration made drastic funding cuts in New Orleans hurricane-protection projects to make room for tax cuts for millionaires and the war in Iraq.
04 Oct 2005

AirTran Has Helped Passengers Get There from Here

By No Author
AirTran Has Helped Passengers Get There from Here Frequent business travelers want to get to their destination fast, easy, and with little impact on their pocketbook. These three factors also work well for a community's business development.
27 Sep 2005

Task-Force Affiliation Clarified

By No Author
Kathleen McCarthy's column (see "Access, Information Are Missing from Davenport Government," Issue 547, September 21-27, 2005) concerning the City of Davenport's Task Force on Governance conveyed the misimpression that I am participating with this task force in my capacity as a part-time assistant Scott County attorney, rather than as a citizen volunteer.
06 Sep 2005

Brew & View Reincarnated, Not Dead

By No Author
The Brew & View is alive and well! Perhaps not in its original location, but we've moved our operations to the larger, and more accommodating, Rocket Cinema. We plan on continuing to bring the best independent and art-house films to the area, but just won't be showing them for the later shows.
30 Aug 2005

No Blue Ribbons for Iowans' Health at the State Fair

By Administrator
It hit me while I was chatting with a rather sunburned southern-Iowa farmer during the first day of the 2005 Iowa State Fair; I've been to no less than 30 of these. In that time, I've seen the weather alternate between tropical and mostly tropical.
23 Aug 2005

Environmentalists Skeptical of Bush Administration

By No Author
The U.S. Forest Service has recently revised estimates on how much the national economy benefits from recreation on national forest lands. During the Clinton administration, the Forest Service had estimated that recreation in U.

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