19 Nov 2002

Illinois Budget Battles Look to Be Bloody

By Rich Miller
You've probably heard by now that Illinois Governor George Ryan has ordered almost all state agencies under his control to come up with 2-percent budget cuts. The idea is to find $250 million in savings to make up for a drop in state revenues.
12 Nov 2002

Clean Up Davenport: No Vacancy for the Homeless

By Letter to Editor
In late September, ground was broken in Davenport for the construction of a new shelter for homeless people. The shelter, an effort by the John Lewis Coffee House, will provide lodging for 78 additional homeless men and women.
12 Nov 2002

Times Get Tough for Illinois GOP

By Rich Miller
From the totally pro-life Jim Ryan, to the tough-talking, pro-life, pro-gun prosecutor Joe Birkett, to the "Let's attack Iraq today!" U.S. Senate candidate Jim Durkin, the right wing got its head handed to it last week in Illinois.
12 Nov 2002

Four Hundred and Counting

By Kathleen McCarthy
It is hard to believe this is our 400th issue. It doesn't seem possible. It's been over nine years. Our first issue came out September 23, 1993. We were monthly for 20 issues and then bi-weekly for two in June of 1995, going weekly in July of that year.
12 Nov 2002

A Modest Proposal

By Jim Fisher
One is led to the inescapable conclusion that the city mothers and fathers in our Quad Cities are not terribly swift. Driven to search the downtown area for horse-cars, drays, and shays, one is left in profound astonishment that our cities have actually chosen to forgo such a reliable, trusted, and old mode of public transport.
12 Nov 2002

Celebrating 400 Readers and Thousands of Readers: It's Your Paper

By Administrator
It's often scary to realize how quickly time passes. It seems a lot less than two years ago that I was composing a commentary to commemorate the River Cities' Reader's 300th issue. And the really frightening thing is that when I went back to look at what I wrote then, I had to trash my plans for this piece; I would have been repeating myself, in some cases nearly word-for-word.
12 Nov 2002

Davenport School Board Member Guard on the Guard

By Kathleen McCarthy
While the voter turnout for last September's Davenport school-board election was dismally low, the highest vote-getter in nearly every precinct, including east Davenport's three precincts, was Grant parent Alan Guard.
05 Nov 2002

Illinois Legislative Leaders Look Out for Number One

By Rich Miller
You'd think that all four state legislative leaders would have busted their humps this fall to win every possible race. But it actually looked like a couple of those leaders threw some races, albeit for different reasons.
05 Nov 2002

The Quarter and Other Downtown Projects Move Forward in East Moline

By Jeff Ignatius
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of articles on new developments in Quad Cities-area downtowns. The City of East Moline is taking a two-pronged approach to re-building its downtown and riverfront areas.
29 Oct 2002

Positions for U.S. House of Representatives (Iowa seat) and U.S. Senate (Illinois seat)

By No Author
1) Would should the role of Congress be in the country's current standoff with Iraq? If the U.S. does enter an armed conflict, how should the country finance the war effort? Ann Hutchinson (Democratic Candidate for U.

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