30 Aug 2005

Law Allows Casino Rock Island to Move

By Joe Collins
• Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has signed a law that could pave the way for the relocation of Casino Rock Island. The legislation allows the Illinois Gaming Board to approve the relocation of any casino on the Mississippi River.
30 Aug 2005

Look to the Skies

By Jeff Ignatius
If you hear the phrase "underutilized asset," your eyes probably start to glaze over. But if that underutilized asset is the wind, and if using it more means it costs less to power your home, you might want to pay attention.
23 Aug 2005

Palmer Homecoming Generates Donations of More Than $3 Million

By Joe Collins
• Amid the festivities and continuing-education sessions, Palmer College of Chiropractic announced a challenge gift and two leadership gifts totaling more than $3 million for its "Building the Future Fountainhead" capital campaign during Palmer Homecoming 2005, August 11 through 13.
16 Aug 2005

Scott County Wins Digital Survey Award

By Joe Collins
• The Scott County Board of Supervisors has announced that Scott County has received the 2005 Digital Counties Survey Award from the Center for Digital Government and the National Association of Counties. The survey recognizes counties that make extensive and effective use of technology, and Scott County is the only Iowa county to receive the 2005 award.
16 Aug 2005

Looking Up in LeClaire

By Jeff Ignatius
The big attraction in LeClaire this past weekend was Tug Fest, but city leaders hope visitors paid attention to 6,000 square feet on the levee. It's nothing special - it looks like paving stones embedded in gravel - but it's a symbol of what's happening in this small town situated on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River.
09 Aug 2005

Iowa Receives Transportation-Project Funding

By Joe Collins
• Iowa's congressional delegation has secured $2.36 billion for transportation projects throughout the state in the Highway Reauthorization Bill. Included is: $67.4 million for I-74 bridge replacement over the Mississippi River in Bettendorf and other I-74 improvements on both sides of the river; $5.
02 Aug 2005

Rock Island's Hickman Center to be Restored

By Administrator
• The Rock Island Housing Authority (RIHA) recently purchased the Hickman Community Center located four blocks from the Martin Luther King Community Center. The Hickman Center will be restored and used as the primary RIHA maintenance distribution and warehouse facility.
02 Aug 2005

A Figge First Look

By Johanna Welzenbach-Hilliard
As Development Director Margaret Babbitt led me up the Figge Art Museum's wide stairway to its second-floor galleries, I was momentarily stunned by Sol LeWitt's enormous drawing that occupies most of the north wall.
02 Aug 2005

Through the Staff's Eyes

By Administrator
"We just unpacked Grand Wood's palette," a worker told Figge Art Museum Director Linda Downs on Monday, while she was giving me a tour. Such are the details that the museum's staff is attending to in the days leading up the Figge's grand opening on Saturday.
26 Jul 2005

Health & Fitness Expo Spotlights 40-Foot Colon

By Joe Collins
• A 40-foot colon replica with appropriately sized polyps is intended to amuse, educate, and ultimately save lives. The Colossal Colon, a crawl-through replica of a human colon, is the creation of Molly McMaster, a colon-cancer survivor who was diagnosed with the disease on her 23rd birthday.

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