06 Jun 2001

Mercury Retrograde

By Garry Lee Wright
We live in strangely searching times. We look inward, outward, all around for a fresh clue why surprising things happen, and why most of them are bad. We might seek out that annoying woman on late-night TV with the Jamaican accent whose tarot cards uncannily confirm that your husband, who's been working late for the past 27 years, is actually having an affair with the security guard.
06 Jun 2001

Davenport Readies Vision Iowa Presentation

By No Author
Davenport • The City of Davenport will make a presentation on its River Renaissance on the Mississippi proposal to the Vision Iowa board on Wednesday, June 13, at the Hotel Savery in Des Moines.
29 May 2001

Energy Prices: How High is Too High?

By Kathleen McCarthy
A friend of mine attended a luncheon recently, at which a spokesperson for MidAmerican Energy told the audience that her company was preparing its customers for the same cost increases next winter as those we experienced this past season.
29 May 2001

Channel Surfing

By Garry Lee Wright
(click) " ... our special guest tonight is former President Bill Clinton, who's just scheduled a paid appearance at a success seminar with TV host Montel Williams and a group of - believe it or not - motivational speakers.
22 May 2001

New Dark Store Agreement Worse than Taxpayers Envisioned

By Kathleen McCarthy
There is no more denying it. It is time to take the blinders off and face the discouraging truth about the current Davenport City Council. With the sole exception of 5th Ward Alderman Wayne Hean, this council betrayed us for the second time by voting for development along or near 53rd Street, giving developers a leg up utilizing public financing tools meant for blighted and neglected neighborhoods.
15 May 2001

Downtown Plans Would Decrease Quality of Life

By Letter to Editor
Is the City of Davenport going to have certain significant and substantial increases from the downtown Davenport tourist influx being promoted by certain local interests: more traffic congestion; more unavailable parking spaces; more drug traffic; more sexual prostitution; etc.
15 May 2001

Council Exploited Child

By Letter to Editor
A while back I attended a Committee of the Whole meeting. I had a very small sign stating, "Free Voice and Choice," which was given to all Americans because of our veterans. The sign was placed on a chair next to me; it was never raised.
15 May 2001

One More Chance to Do the Right Thing

By Kathleen McCarthy
The Davenport City Council proceeded with approval of two rezoning petitions on behalf of THF Realty for a Super Wal-Mart located at Elmore and 53rd Street without several of the conditions of the zonings in writing.
15 May 2001

Leach Looks to Keep Baseball in the Quad Cities

By No Author
Moline • Mayor Stan Leach has formed a task force to explore the future of professional baseball in the Quad Cities. The impending sale (and subsequent relocation) of the River Bandits has given the issue some urgency, with a battle looming over the best site if a new team is found.
15 May 2001

Dark-Store Agreement Makes Empty Wal-Mart Likely

By Jeff Ignatius
Sometimes things with good intentions end up huge mistakes. That might be the case with an agreement between Wal-Mart and the City of Davenport dealing with the store the company will likely be abandoning in a little more than a year.

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