17 Aug 2004

Iowa Lottery Posts Record Profit

By Joe Collins
• The Iowa Lottery posted profits of $55.8 million - an increase of more than 16 percent - for the fiscal year that ended June 30. Preliminary figures show that overall sales from lottery games totaled more than $208.
10 Aug 2004

Census Bureau Helped Homeland-Security Agency Track Arab Americans

By Joe Collins
• The Electronic Privacy Information Center reports that it has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act revealing that the Census Bureau gave the Department of Homeland Security statistical information on people who identified themselves on the 2000 census as being of Arab ancestry.
03 Aug 2004

New Palmer Museum Coming to Davenport

By Joe Collins
• The Vickie Anne Palmer Foundation has announced the purchase of the three-story building at 300 Brady Street in Davenport. This building will become the Palmer Family Museum and headquarters for the foundation and operational offices for the World Leadership Institute.
27 Jul 2004

Quad City International Airport Sets New Boarding Record

By Joe Collins
• In June, 42,112 passengers boarded planes at the Quad City International Airport (QCIA), the first time more than 40,000 people boarded planes at the facility in one month. The new record replaced one set only a few months earlier; in March, the airport had 37,910 boardings.
20 Jul 2004

New Mandatory Survey Delves into Private Life

By Joe Collins
• You might not have heard of the American Community Survey (http://www.census.gov/acs/www), but you will. The new survey, unlike the traditional census every 10 years, will be taken every year at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
13 Jul 2004

Nominations Available for Davenport School Board

By Joe Collins
• If you want to make a difference for your children and your community, school-board service might be the answer. Nominations for the three upcoming vacancies on the Davenport Community Schools Board of Education can be filed through August 5.
06 Jul 2004

Iowa and Illinois Delegates Rated by Special Interest Groups

By Joe Collins
• The November election looks to be contentious, and voters need to arm themselves with as much information as they can. Project Vote Smart has recently issued a report card on elected officials, featuring more than 100 groups with competing interests that turned in grades for the Iowa and Illinois congressional delegations.
29 Jun 2004

Mississippi-River-Trail Signs Installed in Davenport

By Joe Collins
• The Mississippi River Trail (MRT) is a 10-state cycling route in the process of development. It will travel more than 2,000 continuous miles between the headwaters of the Mississippi at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, and the Gulf of Mexico, winding its way through the states of Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
22 Jun 2004

Anyone Can Help Troops Call Home

By Joe Collins
• Any American can now help troops in contingency operations phone home. The Army & Air Force Exchange Service is authorized to sell pre-paid calling cards for deployed troops to any person or group. Now, anyone (even those with no military affiliation) can help deployed troops call home from one of the AAFES call centers in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF).
15 Jun 2004

Trinity at Terrace Park to Build Cath Lab

By Joe Collins
• Trinity Regional Health System has confirmed it will proceed with plans to build a new cardiac-catheterization lab at its Trinity at Terrace Park hospital. The State of Iowa approved Trinity's certificate-of-need filing at a hearing in Des Moines.

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