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.
15 May 2001

THF Provides Schedule for Road Improvements

By Jeff Ignatius
At Thursday's meeting of the Davenport Community & Economic Development Committee, developer THF Realty of St. Louis provided the city council with documents that should allow the construction of a Super Wal-Mart at Elmore Avenue and 53rd Street to proceed.
15 May 2001

Dear Daughter

By Garry Lee Wright
(Editor's note: News Junkie is off this week. This column originally ran last year.) One day when you were a little girl, you came home from school and asked me what the word "gay" meant.
08 May 2001

Taxpayers vs. Special Interests

By Kathleen McCarthy
The opinions of the Quad City Times editorial board are often a source of amusement for those of us who bother to educate ourselves on the issues that concern Davenport taxpayers. This entity's blanket support of Self-Supporting Municipal Improvement Districts (SSMIDs) for THF Realty to pay for infrastructure improvements that provide access to their own development of a Super Wal-Mart and Home Depot is but one more confirmation of the QC Times' editor's philosophy, that ads are news too.

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