One of the most important legislative debates next year will be about reforming, restructuring, and finding a way to fund Northeast Illinois’ public-transportation system. Statewide taxes could possibly be raised to pay for this, so you should pay attention, no matter where you live.

After a precedent-setting, seven-year legal battle in federal court, an historic ruling by the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take regulatory action to eliminate the “unreasonable risk” to the health of children posed by the practice of water fluoridation

This constitutional training resource Gibbs would implement if elected, prompts us to recall the questions we asked prior to the 2016 primary candidates for Scott County Sheriff (when Gibbs ran as a Republican) which, along with each candidate's 2016 responses, are re-printed below, along with our follow up question for the 2024 General Election.

Delivering what the New York Times deemed "the subliminal potency of music, the head-scratching surprise of a modernist poem, and the cockeyed allure of a surrealist painting," Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice enjoys a November 7 through 10 staging by the University of Dubuque’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts, the Times adding that the genre-spanning show is a "devastatingly lovely – and just plain devastating – theatrical gloss on the Orpheus myth."

Appearing in a pair of relaxed, 45-minute public events as a guest in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artists Series, renowned pianist, composer, actress, and author Robin Spielberg hosts respective presentations in Rock Island and Muscatine on November 5 and 7, this lauded Steinway artist and founding member of the Atlantic Theatre Company also a national celebrity artist spokesperson for the American Music Therapy Association.

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a work that "makes an exquisite case for the impossibility of caging the heart," the award-winning Austrian drama Great Freedom enjoys a November 7 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, director/co-writer Sebastian Meise's moving film also praised by The Hollywood Reporter as "a contemplative psychological study of the effects of incarceration, and beyond that, an unconventional love story, tender but unsentimental."

Performing a popular regional style of band music from Mexico's state of Sinaloa that traditionally includes clarinets, trumpets, valve trombones, alto horns, tuba, and a drum set, the internationally touring talents of Mi Banda El Mexicano headline a November 2 concert at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, the ensemble well-established as one of Mexico's hottest musical acts.

A Quad-Cities based tribute act dedicated to free-spirited and energetic concert experiences from the Stop Making Sense era, the tour de force of musicians known as Heads in Motion plays Davenport's Capitol Theatre on November 1, with the 10-piece ensemble celebrating Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner David Byrne and his iconic rock outfit Talking Heads.

Spotlighting selections from Hank Mobley's iconic 1960 album Soul Station alongside additional compositions by both Mobley and jazz great Wynton Kelly, the Linscheid | Kendrick Quartet performs a special concert at Moline's Sound Conservatory on November 2, the event featuring saxophonist Joel Linscheid and pianist Corey Kendrick performing alongside Andy Crawford's deep bass grooves and Jason Brannon's rhythmic foundation on drums.