29 Jul 2003

Davenport Still Searching for Budget Solution

By Jeff Ignatius
While the City of Davenport struggles to find $1.7 million to balance its budget, the City of Bettendorf and Scott County aren't having crises, even though they're dealing with a similar state cut. The Iowa legislature in its spring session passed something called the Reinvention Savings Bill, which cut $60 million to local governments.
24 Jun 2003

Citizens' Group Gets Tough by Getting Tactical

By Administrator
In a world of pervasive apathy, where citizens feel politically powerless to effect change in their communities, comes a group of real live civic heroes to prove that nothing could be further from the truth; the power is still most definitely with the people.
03 Jun 2003

Will Prairie Heights Fly?

By Jeff Ignatius
The City of Davenport has rolled out its master plan for the area north of 53rd Street at Eastern Avenue, and the Prairie Heights development (as it's now called) features a park and more than 1,100 new residences over 630 acres, 220 acres of which are owned by the city.
13 May 2003

School Board Rejects Scoreboard Proposal Because of Lack of Advertising Policy

By Jeff Ignatius
The board of the Davenport Community School District on Monday failed to pass a measure that would have added advertisements to scoreboards at Brady Street Stadium and baseball fields and basketball courts at the district's three high schools.
15 Apr 2003

Mediacom Pits Customers Against Public Access

By Jeff Ignatius
Activists trying to ensure that the City of Davenport improves public access to cable-television-production and -broadcast services are competing against some tough opponents: a public vocally concerned about cable rates and a cable provider threatening to pass increased public-access costs onto consumers.
09 Mar 2003

Planning Firm Hopes to Spark Community Conversation about Davenport Development

By Jeff Ignatius
A nationally recognized planning firm will give a presentation Thursday designed to spark a community "conversation" about riverfront development in Davenport, as well as planning for the entire city. Principals from the California- and Massachusetts-based Hargreaves Associates will give the public presentation "Cities & Their Waterfronts: Reclamation & Revitalization" at 7 p.
26 Nov 2002

RDA Awards Grants to Community Organizations

By No Author
Last week, the Riverboat Development Authority (RDA) announced more than $1.3 million in grants for its fall cycle. The RDA makes decisions about how to distribute a percentage of gambling proceeds from the Rhythm City Casino.
12 Nov 2002

Davenport School Board Member Guard on the Guard

By Kathleen McCarthy
While the voter turnout for last September's Davenport school-board election was dismally low, the highest vote-getter in nearly every precinct, including east Davenport's three precincts, was Grant parent Alan Guard.
05 Nov 2002

The Quarter and Other Downtown Projects Move Forward in East Moline

By Jeff Ignatius
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of articles on new developments in Quad Cities-area downtowns. The City of East Moline is taking a two-pronged approach to re-building its downtown and riverfront areas.
15 Oct 2002

Quad Cities Interfaith Tries to Set a Different Agenda

By Jeff Ignatius
It's the political season, and all sorts of interest groups are trying to assess which candidates are going to do the most for their agendas and constituencies. Quad Cities Interfaith, though, is trying to speak for populations that don't normally get much attention during campaigns.

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