25 Mar 2003

Davenport Council Approves Amusement Park

By Joe Collins
• The Davenport City Council has approved plans for an amusement park with go-carts, bumper boats, and miniature golf in one of the city's busiest and most expensive retail areas. John Colson of Brother Development Partners said Thunder Ridge Adventure Park should open in June.
25 Mar 2003

Making the Pieces Fit

By Jeff Ignatius
What finally emerges as Iowa's Big Plan for revitalizing the state's economy might actually resemble a lot of smaller ideas pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. It started with a basic concept and a challenge from the governor, and the response has been so strong that legislators have no shortage of initiatives from which to choose.
18 Mar 2003

Last Chance to Enter the Reader's Short-Fiction Contest

By Administrator
The world's shortest story was written by Augusto Monterroso: "Upon waking, the dinosaur was still there." We're not asking you to replicate that feat, but we are asking for your entries in a limbo contest for fiction writing.
18 Mar 2003

Quad City Audubon Society Supports Schuetzen Park

By Joe Collins
• The Quad City Audubon Society contributed to the preservation of a local historic landmark and wilderness area with a bequest left to the society by member Ann Barker. The $5,000 donation, which was made at the March meeting of the Audubon Society, will benefit the Schuetzen Park Historic Site in west Davenport.
18 Mar 2003

Getting Our Fair Share

By Jeff Ignatius
The running joke for the Quad City Development Group's lobbying trip to Washington, D.C., last week was that the 70 attendees would be able to recite from memory the Rock Island Arsenal pitch given by Rock Island Mayor Mark Schwiebert.
09 Mar 2003

Davenport Receives Tax Credits for Affordable Housing

By Joe Collins
• The City of Davenport has announced that more than $18 million in federal tax credits have been awarded by the Iowa Finance Authority (IFA) to help produce 168 affordable and market-rate housing units in Davenport.
04 Mar 2003

Davenport School Board Seeking Candidates

By Joe Collins
• The Davenport Community School District Board is seeking candidate letters of interest to fill the board vacancy left by the resignation of Anne Losasso. The letter should be addressed to the school board and include the candidate's name, home address, phone number, e-mail, personal and/or professional background, and the reason he or she is interested in serving on the board.
25 Feb 2003

Iowa Senate Considers Flat Tax

By Joe Collins
• A proposal was unveiled in the Iowa Senate to replace Iowa's individual income-tax system with a single income tax rate of 3.5 percent, instead of the current "progressive" system with different rates for different income levels.
25 Feb 2003

Getting Clobbered

By Jeff Ignatius
Early in his campaign for Iowa state representative, Wayne Hean was given a prescient piece of advice from one of his supporters, Bill Gluba. He "told me right up front, 'We're going to have to do it on our own.
18 Feb 2003

Buffalo Seeks to Join River Trails

By Joe Collins
• At a Buffalo City Council meeting in January, city leaders voted to seek funding for the Buffalo Mississippi River Trail. The trail would become an integral part of two nationwide trail systems: the headwaters-to-the-gulf Mississippi River Trail and the coast-to-coast American Discovery Trail.

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