28 Dec 2004

Iowa Tourism Office Releases Travel Guide

By Joe Collins
• The Iowa Tourism Office has released its 2005 Iowa Travel Guide, filled with information about hundreds of destinations in all parts of the state. The new guide's availability is especially timely, as parents are looking for fun, educational places to take their children, many of whom are enjoying a holiday break.
28 Dec 2004

The Rhythm City Casino Hotel: Breaking Down the Numbers

By Jeff Ignatius
The magic number for the Isle of Capri is $207 million. That's the gaming company's estimate of the new money that the Quad Cities would receive over 10 years from its proposed expansion of the Rhythm City facility, which would include construction of a 10-story riverfront hotel and a 500-space parking ramp.
20 Dec 2004

Bettendorf Fire Department Receives Award

By Joe Collins
• For the 2003 calendar year, Bettendorf Fire Rescue, & Emergency Medical Services was one of 14 departments in the State of Iowa to receive a Life Safety Achievement Award from the Residential Fire Safety Institute for its proactive efforts in fire-prevention and -education while protecting its community and achieving zero structural-fire deaths.
20 Dec 2004

Can Mike Whalen Save Social Security?

By Jeff Ignatius
The future of the Social Security system - presently predicted to be broke sometime between 2042 and 2053 - doesn't depend on Mike Whalen, the founder, president, and CEO of Moline-based Heart of America Restaurants & Inns.
14 Dec 2004

Bettendorf Moving Forward with Riverfront Project

By Joe Collins
• Bettendorf Mayor Mike Freemire recently met with the state's Community Attraction & Tourism (CAT) review board in West Des Moines, where he was notified that the downtown riverfront-development project for Bettendorf has been scored and will move toward negotiations sometime in January.
14 Dec 2004

No Child Left Behind: Beyond the Platitudes

By John Perreault
Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, 40 percent of eighth-graders at Bettendorf Middle School must be proficient - at their grade level - in reading and math. In 2003, 80 percent of those children tested proficient in those subjects.
14 Dec 2004

Quad City Arts' Buffalo Carp Strong but Lacking Variety

By Administrator
Quad City Arts has issued the second volume of the literary journal Buffalo Carp. This publication makes a nice gift for the literature-lover on your holiday shopping list, with some wonderful pieces of poetry and prose.
14 Dec 2004

At What Cost Luxury?

By Jeff Ignatius
In 1899, the economist Thorstein Veblen coined the term "conspicuous consumption," describing the way the rich flaunted their wealth by buying expensive goods and services that people with less money couldn't afford.
07 Dec 2004

Iowa's Public School Enrollment Drops Slightly

By Administrator
• Iowa's public school enrollment is down by 1,639 students, or .34 percent, from a year ago, according to the Department of Education. Currently, 483,372 K-12 students are enrolled statewide. State education leaders expected the decline based on census data and enrollments that show outgoing high-school seniors outnumber incoming kindergarten students.
07 Dec 2004

The Power of Polls and Their Flaws

By Jeff Ignatius
Last week, the River Cities' Reader sat down with Peter Hart, a national pollster with the firm of Peter D. Hart Research Associates who was in the Quad Cities as Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow at Augustana College.

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