25 Oct 2005

Bettendorf Family Museum Offers WiFi

By Joe Collins
• The Family Museum of Arts & Science in Bettendorf is now offering WiFi access to its guests. Visitors to the museum can take advantage of the wireless-Internet capabilities in the museum's Great Hall. Connecting to the Internet through the Family Museum's WiFi is as simple as going on-line with your PDA or laptop computer; no password is necessary.
25 Oct 2005

Doctors, Businesses Push for More Medical-Malpractice Reform

By Joel Knutsen
Although the Illinois legislature earlier this year passed wide-ranging reforms meant to lower medical-malpractice-insurance rates, representatives of the business community and doctors are advocating for further changes.
25 Oct 2005

Quad Cities Dining Guide

By No Author
Welcome to the inaugural Quad Cities Dining Guide, published by the River Cities' Reader. These 20 pages are meant to answer one deceptively simple question: What's for dinner? The fact is that there are many issues tied up in those three words.
18 Oct 2005

Davenport Accepting Proposals to Rehab Abandoned Properties

By Joe Collins
The City of Davenport and its Abandoned Housing Task Force are soliciting proposals to rehabilitate abandoned houses located primarily in the central city. The concept for the HAPPEN program is to protect, preserve, and revitalize established central-city neighborhoods.
11 Oct 2005

Rock Island Receives Grant to Get the Lead Out

By Joe Collins
• The City of Rock Island has received a $1.9-million Lead Hazard Control grant from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development. Funds will be used to reduce lead hazards in 140 privately held homes over a three-year period.
11 Oct 2005

Splitting Up

By Timothy Gower
Smart shoppers can't resist a two-for-one sale. But should you purchase prescription drugs the same way you buy canned corn or frozen pizza? For years, people who take daily medications have saved money by asking their doctors to prescribe pills with double the dose they need, which they then cut in half with a knife.
11 Oct 2005

The Lay of the Land

By Jeff Ignatius
To the average museum-goer, the exhibit 41˚/90˚: Contemporary Landscape at the Figge is an art show and little more. But its importance is far greater. It's a show that recognizes the Midwest as a fertile ground for artists and art, and proof that the Figge Art Museum understands that.
04 Oct 2005

WQPT Adds Streaming Video

By Joe Collins
• WQPT, the Quad Cities' PBS affiliate, has added streaming video to its Web site at (http://www.wqpt.org). The videos can be viewed from any computer with an Internet connection and the Quicktime application (standard on most computers).
04 Oct 2005

War Without End: A Conversation with Award-Winning Author Tim O'Brien

By Nicholas Depew
In The Things They Carried, the prize-winning novelist Tim O'Brien offers this nugget in a chapter titled "How to Tell a True War Story": "In many cases a true war story cannot be believed. If you believe it, be skeptical.
04 Oct 2005

Laughing All the Way to the Blood Bank

By Mike Schulz
Local author and Davenport native Michael McCarty, who will be a guest lecturer at Rock Island's Midwest Writing Center this Saturday, has spent more than a decade conducting interviews with some of the biggest names in fantasy and horror.

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