Policy Practices, NDAs, and County Home Rule Relative to Iowa Utilities Commission

There are five supervisor seats on the county board, and elected supervisors serve four-year terms. This year, there are three open seats, and two of the three incumbents are running again, as Ross Paustian did not run again. Only one of the two incumbents, Jean Dickson, responded to the questionnaire. Supervisors are paid $45-50,000 annually plus health and retirement benefits. Five of the seven candidates vying for the three seats participated this year. Responses are in alphabetical order by family name.

The incumbent Scott County Treasurer, Tony Knobbe has served since 2023, and last fiscal year was paid $102,313 plus benefits. Knobbe is not running for re-election and there are two candidates for a single seat that has a four-year term, Greg Guy and Samuel Samara. Responses are in alphabetical order by family name.

Appearing locally in the musicians' national tour, the legendary progressive rockers of Kansas take the stage at the Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on October 23. filling the venue with selections from the group's multi-platinum-selling albums that include the iconic “Carry on Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind.”

Touring in support of their most recent recording There Was a Light Here that Jesus Freak Hideout said featuring the group's "best work in nearly a decade" and was "an immediate contender for best album of the year," the Christian-metal musicians of Demon Hunter headline an October 27 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the group's Billboard-charting top-10 hits including True Defiance, Extremist, and the twinned 2019 releases War and Peace.

On October 28, the walls of the Redstone Room at Common Chord will be shaking with interstellar excitement at the arrival of Galactic Empire, who will bring to the Davenport venue their singular yet thrillingly familiar takes on unforgettable Star Wars compositions by five-time Academy Award winner John Williams.

Touring in support of their summertime album New Ways to Lose that Saving Country Music called "an impassioned, propulsive, and potent experience," the alt-country and Americana musicians of American Aquarium return to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on October 27,, their latest also hailed by Americana UK as "yet another hugely impressive release."

Hailed by Antigravity magazine for her "dynamic, layered vocals" and "raw storytelling," alternative folk and rock singer/songwriter Maggie Koerner headlines an October 25 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel in support of her latest album Upstate, a work in which, Antigravity continued, "she pays an almost haunting homage to her history – taking us through memories and moments in time, embracing emotion, and whispering reminders of home."

Performing from the repertoire of a county icon who boasts two Grammy Awards, 17 American Music Awards, and the RIAA Award for being the U.S.'s best-selling solo-album artist of the century, touring performer Drew Baloh brings his stage spectacular Garth Live! to the Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse for two October 29 shows, his return to the Rock Island venue boasting such Brooks favorites such as "Friends in Low Places," "The Dance," and "The Thunder Rolls."

Chatting with Ballet Quad Cities' artistic director Courtney Lyon about the professional dance company's The Scarlet Letter, a world-premiere adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's famed 1850 novel, I'm catching the choreographer early in the rehearsal process. How early? I wind up learning who'll be dancing the ballet's principal roles before the dancers do.