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.
15 Oct 2002

Davenport Crime Climbs Again

By Jeff Ignatius
The hullabaloo last week over the announcement that crime in Davenport rose nearly 16 percent in the first six months of 2002 ignores a more troubling trend in the city: Crime in Davenport has been on the rise since 1998, and the police department to this point can only guess at the causes.
08 Oct 2002

A Combustive Mix - Blood, Drugs, Oil, and God

By Administrator
For Gwen and Dorty Hennessey, the two Catholic nuns from Dubuque who received the Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) award from St. Ambrose University last Thursday for their service in promoting world peace, the wind knows no government.
20 Aug 2002

CitiBus Fare Hike Would Ease - but Not Erase - Service's Deficit

By Administrator
When the Davenport City Council on Wednesday considers raising fares for the city's mass-transit service by 50 percent, it's doing so with the risk that the move could backfire. While the city has estimates on how much revenue the fare increase might generate, history and the size of the hike suggest that the benefit might not be enough to bring the service out of the red.
23 Jul 2002

Grant School Parent Alan Guard Steps Up to Run for Davenport School Board

By Kathleen McCarthy
The Davenport Community School District (DCSD) has a way of lighting a fire under people to get involved. Unfortunately, the motivation is many times born of frustration, contempt, and good old-fashioned anger at the modus operandi of the DCSD.
18 Jun 2002

Judge Rules Against Parents in Closure of Neighborhood Schools

By Jeff Ignatius
An administrative law judge last week ruled that the Davenport Community School District board followed state guidelines in its controversial decision in April to close Grant and Johnson elementary schools. Parents, led by Alan Guard and Brenda Jordahl-Buckles, had appealed the district's January 28 and April 22 votes to close the schools.
21 May 2002

We Care Weekend Puts Spotlight on AIDS

By Jeff Ignatius
We Care Weekend is in its 14th year, and much has changed in that time. AIDS went from being an epidemic in the United States to seemingly an afterthought in that time period, but even so, We Care has grown. The weekend in its first year raised $6,000 for the Quad Cities AIDS Coalition, and now it brings in $40,000 for AIDS Project Quad Cities.

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