10 May 2006

Theatrics Overshadow Serious Issues with the Swing

By Administrator
Kevin Krause showed last week that he knows how to orchestrate good drama, and that he has a decent sense of humor. Not since Boston Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein made his escape in a gorilla suit last Halloween has a simian played such a major role in baseball shenanigans.

When Krause, president and general manager of the Swing of the Quad Cities, sent in the team’s mascot to deliver a check for $367,000 to Mayor Ed Winborn, he knew that the absurdity of the situation would make people forget some of the serious issues that had been raised recently.

02 May 2006

The New Reader: Baby Steps to a New Medium

By Administrator
Major changes start with small steps, and big ideas need to be tested and tweaked before they become reality. For the past few months, the staff of the River Cities' Reader has been throwing around big ideas and developing major changes.
02 May 2006

Reform Packages Treat the Symptoms, Not the Disease

By Rich Miller
Whenever there's a big story, a calamity of some sort, an outrage, or some type of disaster, you can bet that a lobbyist or special-interest group will try to take advantage of the situation to push its own legislation in Springfield.
02 May 2006

Radio Pirates Say War Changes the Rules. Are They Correct?

By Scott Westerman
sharpe2 Free Radio Berkeley and KBLT-Los Angeles are two of the more storied pirate-radio operations of the late 20th Century. Stephen Dunifer and Sue Carpenter fought federal regulations and, for a time, ran their own radio stations without a license.  Pirates still flourish in some corners of the country, but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is often quick to pull the plug.
25 Apr 2006

Why George Ryan Thinks He's Innocent - and Why He's Not

By Administrator
I'm from Kankakee. That accident of birth automatically put me on George Ryan's "A" list. Everybody from Kankakee was given special treatment. Ryan treated me differently from many other reporters. But being from Kankakee also had its downside.
18 Apr 2006

Schools and Roads Suffer at the Hands of Political Games

By Rich Miller
Despite what they said, it's not too hard to figure out why the Senate Republicans blocked two construction-bond bills proposed by Democrats, one for education and the other for roads and bridges. The idea is to starve the governor and the Democrats of cash for projects that they could use to promote their re-elections this fall.
18 Apr 2006

Whose Truth is the Truth?

By Kathleen McCarthy
I cannot resist weighing in on the City of Davenport's new "Rules of Conduct" as they apply to certain aldermen and the mayor. Included in the rules is the mandate to "Be honest and truthful. Tell the truth.
18 Apr 2006

Art Retches Forward

By No Author
In his interesting review of the Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibition at Augustana, Steve Banks rightfully points out that this year's incarnation of the show is "unthemed" and thus more about "showcasing dynamic talent.
18 Apr 2006

Davenport Marketing Can't Overcome City's Deficiencies

By Administrator
I'd like to write a column about how Davenport is marketing itself. But any discussion about the marketing of Davenport needs to be preceded by a discussion of what's being marketed. That's because we have to fix any company's (or city's) infrastructure if we expect the masses to flock to it as a result of marketing.
11 Apr 2006

Poll Takes an Early Snapshot of Statewide Races

By Rich Miller
For the first time, a statewide poll has included state Senator James Meeks in the gubernatorial mix, but the results are not yet encouraging for the potential third-party candidate. Meeks is an African-American minister and state legislator who has been threatening to run for governor for the past several weeks.

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