03 May 2005

Davenport Gives Its Citizens a Lesson in How to Not Gather Public Input

By Jeff Ignatius
At the first session for public input on the proposed Rhythm City Casino hotel and parking ramp on the riverfront, Clayton Lloyd greeted roughly 400 attendees with candor. "We're very pleased and somewhat overwhelmed at the response," said Lloyd, Davenport's director of community and economic development.
03 May 2005

Professionalism - Not Political Pressure - Will Produce the Right Decision

By Administrator
The debate will continue over the casino and its hotel. Hopefully, our elected officials will listen to the citizens who express their visions for our riverfronts, and the debate will result in the correct answers.
03 May 2005

Federal Cuts Could Hurt Adult and Vocational Education

By Farrah Welsh
Proposed cuts in federal education funding are forcing local college officials to come up with creative ways to fund programs that might be affected by these cuts. If approved, President Bush's budget would cut 66 percent of funding for adult basic education classes.
26 Apr 2005

Chicago Transit Crisis Lands In Governor's Lap

By Administrator
Other than a handful of state employees, highway workers, Medicaid vendors, commercial-truck owners, and poor people, almost nobody out there in Voter Land has really paid much attention to the state's budget problems.
26 Apr 2005

Waterfront Workshops Next Monday and Tuesday

By Kathleen McCarthy
Consider this a call to action for all Quad Citians, and especially tax-paying businesses and residents of Davenport who wish to weigh in on the future of downtown Davenport's riverfront. The forum for influencing such a milestone development opportunity will take place next Monday and Tuesday, May 2 and 3, at the RiverCenter in downtown Davenport.
26 Apr 2005

Former Presidential Aide Pushes for Health-Care Reform

By Farrah Welsh
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world," Margaret Meade once said. "Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." That's also the belief of Progressive Action for the Common Good, but a small group was most certainly not the case at the public summit that more than 400 people attended April 16 at Augustana College.
26 Apr 2005

Stormwater Fee Spurs Efforts to Recruit Candidates for Davenport's City Council

By Administrator
Citizens' anger over garbage and stormwater fees imposed by the Davenport City Council is fueling efforts to recruit candidates to oppose incumbent members of the council in the municipal election this fall, according to interviews conducted by the River Cities' Reader.
26 Apr 2005

Beyond the Holocaust Offers Lessons from Anne Frank

By Mike Schulz
By 1945, World War II had finally reached its end, and a young German girl named Anne Frank, most of her family, and more than 6 million others had lost their lives in the Holocaust. Sixty years later, the legacy of Anne Frank remains with us still.
19 Apr 2005

Not So Fast

By No Author
I would like to separate the casino-hotel issue into two separate components, regarding the casino anxiety about permanence and the hotel placement on the riverfront. Regarding the casino: There really is little concern.
19 Apr 2005

Governor Should Keep Family Business Private

By Rich Miller
There's no violation of state law if a toxic-waste landfill is partly owned by one of the governor's in-laws, or even a nuclear-waste dump, for that matter. There's no problem with the law if a member of the governor's family owns stock in a regulated monopoly such as Commonwealth Edison or SBC.

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