04 Jun 2002

What's in It for Miss Iowa?

By Administrator
A lot has changed about the annual Miss America Pageant, starting at the bottom rung of a tiered process that used to elevate women for their beauty and performing talents, but now rewards them more for their community service, grasp of current issues, and career goals.
04 Jun 2002

City Council Axes Zoning Board Member John Waddell

By Joe Collins
• In a vote of five to two, the Davenport City Council last week removed Commissioner John Waddell from the Davenport Zoning Board of Adjustment for what it said was insubordination. Davenport Mayor Charlie Brooke, who had run against Waddell in last year's mayoral election, said he wrote three letters to Waddell from January to March, without a response regarding four allegations of improper conduct going back to last fall.
04 Jun 2002

Mardi Gras Festival Adds Food and New Bands

By Jeff Ignatius
Even though it's the second-oldest festival in The District of Rock Island - it's now in its 10th year - Gumbo Ya Ya is still serving up new things as it brings a belated Mardi Gras to the Quad Cities. The most notable addition this year will be a lot more food.
04 Jun 2002

New Book Offers a Tour of Jazz and Blues

By Jimmie Jones
Blues Highway: New Orleans to Chicago by Richard Knight 304 pages Trailblazer Publications $19.95 This book is written primarily for jazz and blues enthusiasts who might be interested in what it would be like to spend three weeks touring what author Richard Knight calls "Blues Highway," the New Orleans-to-Chicago path (that includes the Quad Cities) where much of jazz and blues originated.
28 May 2002

RiverCenter Director Resigns Following Audit

By Joe Collins
• Employees of the company that manages the RiverCenter/Adler Theatre for the City of Davenport are being investigated by the Davenport Police Department for "potential criminal activity related to the misappropriation of funds," according to a May 24 press release.
21 May 2002

Register to Vote for Iowa Primary

By Joe Collins
• Potential Scott County voters have until May 25 to register to vote for the June 4 primary election. To register, you can visit the Scott County Auditor's Office at the Scott County Courthouse weekdays from 7:30 a.
21 May 2002

Preserving Davenport's "Shooting Park"

By Robert Jackson Jr.
It's pretty amazing that a central-city natural area that was largely abandoned to the vagaries of the free market for more than seven decades has survived by accident. But that's the story of Schuetzen Park, located south and west of the Fejervary Park on Davenport's near west side.
21 May 2002

Sculpture on 2nd

By Todd McGreevy
Back in 1996, MidCoast Fine Arts exported its "art-in-the-empty-storefronts" model from the Rock Island District to downtown Davenport with the Art Under Glass program. Rotating juried exhibits of local and regional art have filled the empty storefronts of the Redstone and the Parker buildings on 2nd Street ever since.
14 May 2002

Group Gets Funds to Pay Off High-Interest Housing Contracts

By Joe Collins
• The Mississippi Valley Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) has been awarded funds to refinance homes purchased on contract, which commonly have high interest rates and balloon payments due in a short period of time.
14 May 2002

Fighting for the Right

By Jeff Ignatius
Deep down, Bill Salier argues, nearly everybody's a conservative. You might claim to be a Democrat or a moderate, but really, on the issues that matter, you're a conservative, believing in "individual accountability, self-reliance, and self-sufficiency," to quote one of his brochures.

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