SCOTT COUNTY, IOWA (March 27, 2019) — Tony Knobbe, Scott Emergency Communication Center Board Chair, announces that David Donovan has accepted employment as Scott Emergency Communication Center (SECC) Director with a salary of $129,709. The appointment was approved by the SECC Board at their meeting March 21, 2019. Donovan was appointed interim SECC director on December 8, 2019 following the resignation of the previous director. Donovan’s position title will be SECC/EMA Director.

“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around — they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

DAVENPORT, IOWA (March 25, 2019) — Due to unavoidable circumstances, author Jason Reynolds’s visit to the Quad Cities this week has been postponed until later this spring. The Author’s Event at the Davenport Public Library on March 28 at 6:00PM is cancelled.

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Everywhere one looks these days, the world seems to be moving away from debate on contentious subjects and toward demands that those who have unpopular opinions — or even just ask impertinent questions — be forcibly silenced.