13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Free Stuff

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Best Place to Hike

1. Black Hawk State Historic Site

2. Scott County Park

3. Wildcat Den State Park

 

Best Bike Path

1. Ben Butterworth Parkway

2. Duck Creek bike path

3. Davenport bike paths

 

Most Bike-Friendly City

1. Moline

2. Davenport

3. Bettendorf

 

Best Place to Canoe

1. Rock River

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Information

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Best Local Library

1. Moline Public Library

2. Bettendorf Public Library

3. Davenport Public Library

 

Best Local Newscast

1. KWQC TV6

2. WQAD TV8

3. WHBF TV4

 

Most Reliable Weather Forecast

1. WQAD TV8

2. KWQC TV6

3. The Weather Channel

 

Best Local Media Personality

1. Danielle Howe (WLLR FM103.7)

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Imaginary Local Festival

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Imaginary Festival!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Local Country Artist

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Build a Better Quad Cities

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Retail Store You'd Like to See in the Quad Cities

1. Macy's

2. IKEA

3. Circuit City

 

Restaurant You'd Like to See in the Quad Cities

1. Cheesecake Factory

2. Joe's Crab Shack

3. P.F. Chang's

 

Underrepresented Cuisine

1. Fresh seafood

2. Authentic Italian

3. Indian

 

Local Business You'd Like to See Re-Open

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Things That Aren't Really Good

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Best TV Hair

1. Paula Sands (KWQC TV6)

2. Jessica Tighe (KWQC TV6)

3. Sharon DeRycke (KWQC TV6)

 

Best Overblown Local News Story

1. Weather

2. Casinos moving

3. Elections

 

Best Complaint About the Quad Cities

1. Nothing to do

2. Road conditions

3. Traffic

 

Most Dangerous Intersection

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Kept Secrets

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Best Restaurant - Cup A Jo

 

Michael Huggins knows about well-kept secrets. He said a magazine named the chicken salad at his coffee shop/restaurant at 1603 Fifth Avenue in Moline the best in the country. He just doesn't know the name of the magazine, and "I don't have the magazine to prove it," he said.

23 Jan 2008

A New Way to Fight the Death Penalty: Sister Helen Prejean at Augustana College January 23 and 24

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Reader issue #668 When my mother saw the 1995 movie adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking, she was comfortable with the execution of the character Matthew Poncelet (played by Sean Penn) once he admitted his guilt.

16 Jan 2008

On Track?: The Main Thing Keeping Passenger Rail from the Quad Cities is a Few Billion Dollars

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Reader issue #668 Listening to Paul Rumler and Jim Bohnsack talk about passenger-rail service is not unlike attending a pep rally.

03 Jan 2008

Business in Review

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While the River Cities' Reader is best known as an arts-and-entertainment newspaper, we often publish in-depth articles on business and politics.

Below is a sampling of our business coverage over the past 18 months.

14 Nov 2007

Scrubbing Bubbles: With Colleges Moving Away from Standardized Testing, Will K-12 Follow?

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When Augustana College announced earlier this month that it was eliminating standardized tests as an application requirement for prospective students, it highlighted a trend in higher education.

"There has been an accelerating surge of selective colleges dropping their admissions-testing requirement," said Robert Schaeffer, public education director for the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, also known as Fair Test. "The pace is such that some folks have suggested we're reaching a critical mass or a tipping point."

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