04 Jan 2005

High-Performance Government Effort Needs Your Help

By Letter to Editor
As another in a series of opportunities for citizens to play a part in Davenport's success, the City of Davenport is creating a High Performance Government Work Group. High-performance local governments are distinguished by their ability to develop productive relationships with stakeholders, build capacity across traditional boundaries to effectively work together, and address difficult policy problems collaboratively.
04 Jan 2005

Social Security Article Misled Readers with Statistics

By Letter to Editor
I am a federal employee and long-time investor in the Thrift Savings Plan. During my career, I spent nearly 14 years as editor of the Target, the newspaper serving the Rock Island Arsenal, and I became very familiar with the Thrift Savings Plan both through personal experience and by researching and writing numerous articles on the subject.
14 Dec 2004

A Counter Proposal to the Riverfront Hotel

By Letter to Editor
I would like to submit a counter-proposal to the riverfront hotel casino complex now being lobbied for by Isle of Capri interests with the City of Davenport. That is: Develop the Hotel Blackhawk as the axis for a casino convention center complex.
23 Nov 2004

Funding for Thomson Prison Should Be in Next Budget

By Letter to Editor
The next session of the Illinois General Assembly will be convening in January 2005. At this time I ask all individuals in northwestern Illinois to contact their local senator or representative and express your desire to see funding for the opening of the Thomson prison included in the next budget in the state of Illinois.
09 Nov 2004

Ballet Presents an "Arts Miracle"

By Administrator
Incredible! An arts miracle! That's the best wording I know to describe Ballet Quad Cities in its latest embodiment: A Night to Remember. Their celestial performance was devilishly difficult, a program complex enough to challenge even the most financially flush dance company.
02 Nov 2004

Artists Need to Protest Injustice

By Letter to Editor
Mike LoGuidice's review of the art exhibit Big Fiber in the October 13-19 issue of the River Cities' Reader was a welcome review of a small but rich show in Rock Island's growing arts district. He captured well the master/apprentice origin of the relationship between the artists, and his descriptions of the works were well penned.
19 Oct 2004

Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine

By Letter to Editor
During the week of October 18-23, Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns 62 TV stations nationwide, is forcing its affiliates to air an anti-John Kerry film entitled Stolen Honor. The FCC has refused to do anything about it but at this writing, there is an intense nationwide boycott against Sinclair, and its stock is at an all- time low point.
12 Oct 2004

Kerry Helped Jobs Move Overseas

By Letter to Editor
I hear in this campaign that Senator Kerry has a plan that will penalize companies for moving their manufacturing to foreign countries. He indicated that the current administration has rewarded companies for this loss of jobs.
21 Sep 2004

Citizens Should Have More Input on School Boards

By Letter to Editor
It's time for a change. It's time that the Iowa school boards stop appointing individuals to the board who they think are appropriate. It's time that the people of this city/state have a chance to speak up and be heard.
14 Sep 2004

Trade Agreements Sap Independence

By Letter to Editor
The flow of jobs overseas isn't the only consequence of the misnamed free trade agreements. NAFTA has opened our nation's borders wider than ever to illegal immigration, and the proposed Free-Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) would worsen this already huge problem.

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