09 Oct 2001

Taxpayers Pay for River Renaissance

By Letter to Editor
If the citizens of Scott County were allowed to decide what to do with the $120 million budgeted for River Renaissance, we would instead vote for: • hiring 200 more police and firefighters and giving them all a big raise; • fixing the streets and sewers; • buying some kind of high-tech temporary floodwall; • renovating John O'Donnell Stadium; and • putting the remaining tens of millions of dollars in the bank for a rainy day.
09 Oct 2001

Sierra Club Holds Annual Meeting and Pregracke Fundraiser

By Letter to Editor
Sierra Club's Eagle View Group will host the Iowa Chapter's Annual Meeting & Dinner on October 20, 2001. Departing from tradition, this year's meeting will be open to the public, and a fundraiser for Chad Pregracke.
09 Oct 2001

Talibananas

By Garry Lee Wright
"Pray tell us, Mullah, what is the latest unacceptable response to our Taliban's belligerent rhetoric and empty offers of negotiation by the evil, decadent, Allah-hating, women-loving American devils and their blonde-haired, suit-and-tie-wearing imperialist European allies and our rainy-day-Muslim turncoat-Arab former friends?" "The microphones are off, Mullah Omar.
02 Oct 2001

Mayoral Candidate Sherwood Avoids Accountability

By Kathleen McCarthy
We would like to extend our congratulations to all those who completed the candidates' position surveys (pages 6-11). We believe it is vitally important to communicate views and positions on the critical issues facing Davenport, especially with this many candidates.
02 Oct 2001

Davenport Mayoral Primary Election Guide

By No Author
Introduction The October 9 Davenport primary election features a crowded field for both mayor and the city's two at-large city-council seats. To help voters make informed decisions about the candidates, The River Cities' Reader sent questionnaires to the seven people vying for Davenport mayor and the five people aiming for the city's alderman-at-large seats.
02 Oct 2001

Davenport Alderman At-Large Election Guide

By No Author
Introduction The October 9 Davenport primary election features a crowded field for both mayor and the city's two at-large city-council seats. To help voters make informed decisions about the candidates, The River Cities' Reader sent questionnaires to the seven people vying for Davenport mayor and the five people aiming for the city's alderman-at-large seats.
02 Oct 2001

Leaving September

By Garry Lee Wright
Along with the shock, grief, and anxiety of the past few weeks, some of us have been feeling, for want of a better word, inadequate. We're not, most of us, very knowledgeable about foreign countries, or their cultures, or how they relate to each other and to the United States.
25 Sep 2001

Quad Cities' Diverse Population Needs Tolerance, Friendship

By Administrator
As the initial shock over the terrible events of September 11 turns into deep sadness and a profound sense of loss, our sympathy goes to those across the country and around the world who mourn loved ones. With a sense of awe and gratitude, we learn of those who survived, those who committed heroic acts, and those who continue to do so every day as they undertake the incredible task of search and rescue in New York.
25 Sep 2001

Against Acting on Rage

By Jeff Ignatius
Over the past two weeks, disbelieving Americans have been asking themselves a variation on the same question: Why do people in other lands hate this country so much? It's not a difficult question, really.
25 Sep 2001

Here in America

By Garry Lee Wright
Wednesday afternoon, just a week and a day after the Tuesday when everything in America changed, I was walking through downtown Chicago, trying to catch a train. I was hurrying to pick up my daughter from school, and it was starting to drizzle.

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