29 Mar 2005

Bike Rentals Are Back in the Quad Cities

By Joe Collins
• The Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau (QCCVB) is starting the second season of bike rentals at its downtown Davenport, 102 South Harrison, and downtown Moline, 2021 River Drive, offices/visitor centers.
22 Mar 2005

Left Bank Art League Opens Gallery

By Joe Collins
• Left Bank Art League has announced the grand opening of its newly acquired art gallery at 1629 Second Avenue in The District of Rock Island. The league shares the space with MidCoast Gallery West. On April 1, the gallery will be the site for special activities to commemorate the opening as well as the league's presence in the city's cultural plan.
22 Mar 2005

Jon Stewart for President

By Paul Matthews
There are no exact directions. There are probably no directions at all. The only things that I am able to recommend at this moment are a sense of humor; an ability to see the ridiculous and the absurd dimensions of things; an ability to laugh about others as well as about ourselves; a sense of irony and of everything that invites parody in this world.
15 Mar 2005

Quad City Development Group Unveils New Marketing Campaign

By Joe Collins
• At its annual meeting last week, the Quad City Development Group launched a new marketing campaign and theme for the Quad Cities. The "Engineered for Success" regional theme is meant to "attract high-wage, high-value business investments," according to a press release.
07 Mar 2005

California Company Acquires Clinton's The Franciscan University

By Administrator
• Bridgepoint Education, a higher-education company based in Poway, California, has announced that it is acquiring The Franciscan University of the Prairies of Clinton, Iowa. The agreement, which is expected to close by mid-March, has been approved by the university's board of trustees and Bridgepoint's board of directors.
07 Mar 2005

Patient Money

By Jeff Ignatius
When it opened for business in fall 2000, the 203-acre Eastern Iowa Industrial Center was meant as a catalyst for economic growth - able to attract large-scale industrial companies who had in the past not even considered the Quad Cities.
07 Mar 2005

NewVentures Center Open for Business

By Jeff Ignatius
While DavenportOne is a partner in the old-school Eastern Iowa Industrial Center, trying to lure large industrial businesses to create high-paying jobs in volume, it's also working at the new-economy end of the spectrum, trying to help startup businesses in high-tech fields get from the idea stage to market.
01 Mar 2005

Soil Treatment to Begin on Future Park in Sylvan Slough

By Joe Collins
• Work will begin soon on the Rock Island side of the Sylvan Slough Trailhead. Instead of the traditional "dig and haul" cleanup method of excavating contaminated soil and depositing it in a hazardous-waste landfill, the City of Rock Island has hired EnviroNET Inc.
01 Mar 2005

Music Meets Visual Art in "Fantastic Fiddles"

By Administrator
Although Steven Sinner is best known as an artist - making turned wooden vessels airbrushed in gold and silver acrylic paint - he also loves music, playing bass clarinet in the Black Hawk Community College Band and the Bettendorf Park Band.
01 Mar 2005

World Premiere Highlights Symphony's March Concert

By Administrator
Amidst the Symphony in Bloom activities taking place this weekend, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra (QCSO) is also offering the world premiere of British composer Andrew Carter's "Three Nonsensical Songs." This piece was commissioned in honor of Ezra Mozart Hartman as a memorial gift from Karen Hartman Getz, Tom Getz, and the Moline Foundation.

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