14 May 2002

Hornucopia Builds on Identity with Powerful Lineup

By Jeff Ignatius
After three years, Hornucopia might finally be done answering the question: What kind of music is it again? "We spent the first couple of years explaining what it was," said Jennifer Fowler, executive director of The District of Rock Island.
07 May 2002

Pipe-Bomb Trail Starts in the QC Area

By Joe Collins
• The Quad Cities area appears to be the starting point for a series of pipe bombings across the western United States. On Friday, pipe bombs were found in rural mailboxes in Anamosa, Dubuque, Eldridge, Farley, and Tipton, Iowa, and in Elizabeth, Morrison, and Mount Carroll, Illinois.
07 May 2002

New Agriculture Bill Shorts the Family Farmer

By Jeff Ignatius
Legislation that sets federal agriculture policy for the next six years is close to becoming law, and large agricultural producers will gain even more advantages over the small family farmer because of it. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the 2002 Farm Bill on Wednesday, May 8, and it's expected to pass, according to Seth Boffeli, a spokesperson for Senate Agriculture Committee Chairperson Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).
07 May 2002

Rock Island Leaders Look to Tell the City's Stories

By Administrator
The inventor of the modern computer and the Blues Brothers are among the figures that could be memorialized through public art as part of a capital-improvement project over the next few years on and near the Great River Plaza of Rock Island.
30 Apr 2002

Scott County Health Inspections Available on the Web

By Joe Collins
• Have you ever wondered how your favorite restaurant or grocery store does on its health inspections? Although food-establishment inspection reports have always been available to the public by coming to the Health Department, you can now log on to the Scott County Health Department's Web site at (http://www.
30 Apr 2002

Debating Death

By Jeff Ignatius
Too often in Illinois, police and prosecutors have seemed hell-bent on convictions - not justice - when it comes to serious crimes. "Too often" is once if it means the death penalty, but at least 13 times the state has sent somebody to death row who was later discovered to be innocent.
30 Apr 2002

Major Recommendations of the Commission on Capital Punishment

By No Author
In its report, the Commission on Capital Punishment condensed its recommendations into a summary of 10 items. These are taken from the report's preamble. • We recommend videotaping all questioning of a capital suspect conducted in a police facility, and repeating on tape, in the presence of the prospective defendant, any of his statements alleged to have been made elsewhere.
23 Apr 2002

River Action Hands Out Eddy Awards

By Joe Collins
• River Action on April 20 handed out its third annual Eddy Awards at a ceremony at igeon Creek Park in Bettendorf. The awards were given in six categories to "individuals, companies, cities, and organizations who acted as an eddy does, 'going against the current,' to accomplish excellence along the riverfront.
23 Apr 2002

Tied in Knots About Tying the Knot

By Jeff Ignatius
In opening her presentation at a Quad Cities appearance on April 12, Maggie Gallagher explained what the "Marriage Movement" is not. Gallagher, an affiliate scholar with the Institute for American Values, said the Marriage Movement is not a polarizing political issue or a set of political initiatives.
16 Apr 2002

Iowa Drunk-Driving Reform Dies

By Joe Collins
• Iowa House leaders have announced that they will not continue efforts on compromise legislation to lower the legal blood-alcohol limit for drunken driving from .10 to .08 percent. Legislators had come up with and agreed on a three-tiered plan with increasing penalties for higher blood-alcohol limits.

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