21 Mar 2006

Lessons from Post-Hurricane New Orleans

By Jeff Ignatius
An ad in the March issue of New Orleans magazine boasts, "Lots Start at 100' Above Sea Level." That's life in the Big Easy, post-Katrina: It doesn't matter how much it costs as long as it's on high ground.
14 Mar 2006

Two Davenport Projects Get Affordable-Housing Funding

By Joe Collins
• Two Davenport projects were awarded Low-Income Housing Tax Credits for the development of affordable housing. Taylor Heights (1400 Warren Street) received $1.89 million for rehabilitation of 20 units of affordable assisted living.
14 Mar 2006

Green Eyes in the Sky

By Gregory Dicum
Imagine yourself in outer space, gazing at the blue and green sphere that is our home. Now zoom in, fast, diving toward continents and oceans. Soon rivers and cities emerge, then individual houses, then cars. Zoom closer - there's a camel in the desert, and you can even zoom right to its eyelashes.
07 Mar 2006

High-School Students Who Don't Graduate Cost States Billions

By Administrator
• Almost 9,000 students didn't graduate from Iowa's high schools in 2004, costing the state more than $2 billion in lost wages, taxes, and productivity over their lifetimes, reports the Alliance for Excellent Education.
07 Mar 2006

Requiem for a Dream

By Jeff Ignatius
It's true that history is written by the winners. But in the case of the new documentary A Clown Short of Destiny, the losers are getting their say, too. The movie documents a Des Moines heavy-music scene on the rise in the late 1990s, with several bands grabbing the attention of music labels.
07 Mar 2006

Super Granny

By Mike Schulz
For a current Virginian, Beverly van Hook knows her Quad Cities. The author was selected by the Midwest Writing Center to be the guest speaker at the organization's Silver Anniversary Awards Banquet - at the Outing Club on Saturday, March 11 - and the decision makes sense.
28 Feb 2006

St. Ambrose Students Build Houses Over Spring Break

By Joe Collins
• More than 20 students from St. Ambrose University will spend their spring breaks in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Martinsville, Virginia, building houses through Habitat for Humanity's Collegiate Challenge program.
21 Feb 2006

Davenport Church Goes Geothermal

By Joe Collins
• The Unitarian Church, located on Eastern Avenue at East Kimberly Road in Davenport, is in the process of converting its building's heat and air-conditioning systems to run on geothermal energy. Geothermal uses heat from the earth to replace natural gas for heating during the winter.
14 Feb 2006

Riverfront WIU Campus Receives Planning Grant

By Joe Collins
• A $2.4-million grant from the State of Illinois will allow Western Illinois University to finish planning the expansion of its Quad Cities campus on property donated by Deere & Company along River Drive in Moline.
14 Feb 2006

Mississippi Music Museums

By Jeff Ignatius
To download an edited version of the Reader interview with RME President and CEO Lon Bozarth (26 minutes, 7.7 megabytes, mp3), click here. Last week, on the day that the River Music Experience announced plans for a second-floor club that would cement its place as a venue for live music rather than a traditional museum, leaders of the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Society met with members of the media to discuss several new initiatives, including a planned downtown-Davenport museum dedicated to the jazz giant.

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