01 Jul 2003

Pundits Are All Talk

By Kathleen McCarthy
Mainstream talk shows, whether radio or television, are becoming as irrelevant as their print counterparts. Interestingly, the majority of these are conservative in nature amidst what is widely considered a liberal media.
24 Jun 2003

Conservative Leader Has Eye on Illinois

By Rich Miller
"We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship," Grover Norquist recently told the Denver Post. Norquist runs a group called Americans for Tax Reform, and his organization was scheduled to participate in a Chicago press conference last week that was called to attack Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich for his anti-business proposals.
24 Jun 2003

Citizens' Group Gets Tough by Getting Tactical

By Administrator
In a world of pervasive apathy, where citizens feel politically powerless to effect change in their communities, comes a group of real live civic heroes to prove that nothing could be further from the truth; the power is still most definitely with the people.
17 Jun 2003

Illinois GOP Infighting Only Helps the Democrats

By Rich Miller
House Republican leader Tom Cross and Senate Republican leader Frank Watson weren't exactly on the same page during the spring legislative session. As a result, there is serious tension between the two Republican caucuses.
17 Jun 2003

Meat and Potatoes, All Right

By Kathleen McCarthy
Had I mused for days I could not have conveyed the shortsighted mentality of area developers more perfectly than our own real-estate attorney/developer Steve Schalk in a recent Quad-City Times article on the city's plans for developing Prairie Heights, the property it owns at 53rd Street and Eastern Avenue.
10 Jun 2003

Illinois Governor Leads a Charmed Life

By Rich Miller
I'm not a superstitious person, but I'm starting to believe that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's life has been blessed by a kindly leprechaun, a lucky star, or an influential guardian angel. Take your pick. He was elected to the Illinois House after a new legislative map gave state Representative Bruce Farley (D-Chicago) the opportunity to be kicked upstairs to the Senate by Blago's politically powerful father-in-law.
03 Jun 2003

John Lewis Coffee House Project Needs Community Input

By Letter to Editor
I am a resident of the area in which the John Lewis Coffee Shop (JLCS) is planning on building a low-income housing development (12th and Myrtle) in Davenport. The development plan was made without contacting the neighbors in the area, and the organization is planning on moving forward despite neighbor opposition.
03 Jun 2003

Illinois Governor Tries to Seize Control

By Rich Miller
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has racked up some impressive poll numbers partly because the voters have so far bought into his constant refrain that he is "changing Springfield's culture." There is no doubt that he has reformed some things.
03 Jun 2003

Take a Stand on FCC Ruling - Now or Never

By Administrator
The old adage "It's not what you know; it's who you know" may certainly apply in the case of Mike Powell, chairperson of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and, coincidently, the son of Secretary of State Colin Powell.
03 Jun 2003

Will Prairie Heights Fly?

By Jeff Ignatius
The City of Davenport has rolled out its master plan for the area north of 53rd Street at Eastern Avenue, and the Prairie Heights development (as it's now called) features a park and more than 1,100 new residences over 630 acres, 220 acres of which are owned by the city.

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