15 Jun 2004

River Music Experience Delivers at Grand-Opening Weekend

By Jeff Ignatius
Connie Gibbons, executive director of the River Music Experience, has said she views the new roots-music center on a par with big-city facilities such as the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and the Experience Music Project in Seattle.
15 Jun 2004

Speed Dating Matches People Seven Minutes at a Time

By Jeff Ignatius
If Susan Esser had known what she was getting into, she might never have started the Quad Cities' speed-dating service. That first session, in April 2001, didn't go as smoothly as planned, as she was unsure how to facilitate the orderly flow of singles from one person to the next.
08 Jun 2004

LeClaire Library Announces Public Phase of Capital Campaign

By Joe Collins
• With $220,000 left to raise for the $1.425-million community library, the LeClaire Community Library Board of Trustees has kicked off the public phase of its JOIN IN Capital Campaign. The campaign cabinet will be broadening its solicitation efforts to ask all LeClaire resides for their financial support for this project.
08 Jun 2004

Municipal Musical Chairs

By Jeff Ignatius
For all the deliberate planning happening in Davenport in recent years - River Renaissance improvements, Prairie Heights, the River Vision project, and the city's comprehensive plan, to cite a few examples - one key item is still being addressed haphazardly: the city's form of government.
01 Jun 2004

Students Complete Home in Davenport

By Joe Collins
• Students from the Davenport Community School District and North Scott Schools pooled their talents and hard work to complete a multi-level, $300,000-plus house to help celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Student Built Home Program.
01 Jun 2004

Working from Within

By Jeff Ignatius
Federal Election Commission Chairperson Bradley A. Smith talks big. During a commencement address May 23 at Augustana College, he said, "It is a fact that under the Supreme Court's jurisprudence today, criticism of a congressman close to an election receives less constitutional protection than does Internet pornography, simulated child pornography, tobacco advertising, topless dancing, defamation, flag-burning, or burning a cross outside a black church.
25 May 2004

Iowa Failing to Regulate Large Livestock Operations

By Joe Collins
• According to a new report released by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) lacks the authority and resources to properly regulate the state's livestock operations under the federal Clean Water Act.
18 May 2004

Congressman Leach wins Civic Leadership Award

By Joe Collins
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation has awarded U.S. Representative Jim Leach (R-Iowa) its Civic Leadership Award. The honor recognizes outstanding contributions by an elected official, a government staff person, a public agency, or a not-for-profit organization at the local, state, or national level.
18 May 2004

Renaissance Rock Island Branches Out

By Jeff Ignatius
Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation, which has long been a model of progressive development in the Quad Cities, is starting to ruffle a few feathers - with quite a few more likely to follow. That's because the not-for-profit organization has delved into the development of affordable housing, building 71 units for the Rock Island Housing Authority in the coming years, including six scattered-site homes this year in established - although still sensitive - neighborhoods.
11 May 2004

Iowa Marks Motorcycle Awareness Month in May

By Joe Collins
• Studies show that in crashes involving a motorcycle and another vehicle, the motorcyclist's right of way was violated two-thirds of the time. To make motorists more alert to others on roadways, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack has declared May "Motorcycle Awareness Month.

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