24 Jul 2000

The Davenport Blues

By Administrator
Eddie Condon was as much a wisecracker as a guitar player, but when he met Bix Beiderbecke, his irony took the first train. "The players fell over themselves greeting Beiderbecke," he reported in his 1947 memoir We Called It Music.
12 Jul 2000

QC Radio in Limbo

By Jeff Ignatius

KBOB radio personality Mike Kenneally has reason to be unhappy with his employer. He was let go from the country station in January 1999 because management was "basically firing salaries," he said. When he was re-hired in August with a pay cut, he says he was verbally promised some things by Connoisseur Communications, the station's owner.

12 Jul 2000

Billboards Be Gone

By Kathleen McCarthy
Last week, the 7th District Judicial Court upheld Davenport's Zoning Board of Adjustments' (ZBA) rulings (November/December 1999) that declared five of Revolutions' billboard placements out of compliance with Davenport's zoning ordinances.
12 Jul 2000

A Taxing Proposition

By Todd McGreevy
In this giddy era of Internet success where multimillionaires are made over night and company valuations triple every 5 days, no one is more giddier than Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. In it's fifth year of existence, Seattle-based Amazon.

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