29 Jan 2002

Option Tax Might Become Statewide in Iowa

By Joe Collins
• The one-cent local-option sales tax in Scott and Muscatine counties that helps fund education might be implemented all across Iowa. The additional statewide sales tax would give those districts that haven't been able to pass a local-option sales tax access to more funding, without having to raise property taxes or relying on a vote.
29 Jan 2002

A Taxing Question

By Jeff Ignatius
Local business and political leaders fear that to gain a few thousandths of one percent of the state's budget, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is threatening the economic balance of the Quad Cities. As part of his budget proposal two weeks ago, Vilsack announced a tax-policy change that could hamper efforts to attract businesses and workers to the Iowa Quad Cities.
29 Jan 2002

Laverne Williams, 1910-2001

By Jimmie Jones
On December 16, the Quad Cities lost a fine and loving mother when Laverne Williams passed away while sitting in a chair in her Spencer Tower apartment in Rock Island. She celebrated her 91st birthday on October 15.
29 Jan 2002

REPLACEMENT FOR 50-YEAR-OLD PAP SMEAR METHOD IS CLEARED BY FDA

By Lashon Moore, ARNP
The ThinPrep 2000 System, which prepares the ThinPrep® Pap Test, is intended as a replacement for the 50 year old Pap smear, the most widely used cancer screening test. More than 100 million Pap tests are performed annually worldwide.
22 Jan 2002

Centennial Bridge to Be Toll-Free by June, but Traffic Headaches Will Continue

By Joe Collins
• The good news about the Centennial Bridge is that the tolls are tentatively scheduled to be removed by June. The bad news: Traffic slowdowns and tie-ups are likely while improvements and renovations are made to the bridge, and these could drag into 2003.
22 Jan 2002

You Don't Know Jack

By Administrator
There's currently a syndicated game show called You Don't Know Jack on which host Troy Stevens, played by Paul Reubens, asks contestants a series of satirical and irreverent questions based mostly on pop culture.
22 Jan 2002

The Destruction of Marycrest

By D. Ezra Sidran
As an undergraduate in the mid-1980s at what was then Marycrest College, I was given the basic foundation of a liberal-arts education. I had learned logic, ethics, morals, and, on a good day, something about computers.
15 Jan 2002

Illinois Gets Tough on Ecstasy

By Joe Collins
• A law that went into effect on January 1 makes Illinois one of the harshest states in the nation on the club drug Ecstasy. Under the new law, sale of as few as 15 Ecstasy tablets will be treated as a Class X felony, punishable by up to 30 years in prison and with a mandatory-minimum six-year sentence.
08 Jan 2002

Budget Woes Cause Tax Refund Delays

By Joe Collins
• Iowa's budget woes mean thousands of Iowa taxpayers will have to wait three months for their income-tax refunds during the upcoming tax season. Normally, the state needs about eight weeks to process an error-free tax return that is filed on paper.
08 Jan 2002

Can Grocers Crush the Bottle Bill?

By Jeff Ignatius
When the Iowa legislature convenes next week, it should expect a new round of lobbying from the state's grocers to repeal the state's "Bottle Bill" - the recycling/litter-control law that requires a five-cent deposit on containers for beer, soda, wine, and other beverages.

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