07 Sep 2004

Casino Hotel: More Questions, Fewer Answers

By Kathleen McCarthy
It confounds me that many city leaders are framing the issue of a new casino hotel on Davenport's downtown riverfront as a remedy for the current riverboat casino facility, specifically the porte cochere that connects to the boat.
07 Sep 2004

More Than Two Choices on Casino Hotel

By Jeff Ignatius
Davenport City Administrator Craig Malin casts the debate over a new riverfront casino/hotel as an either/or proposition. Either you accept the new hotel, or you're stuck with the status quo. "Some folks in the community have the [mistaken] feeling that there's this third or fourth or fifth option," echoed DavenportOne President and CEO Dan Huber.
07 Sep 2004

A New Riverfront Hotel

By Letter to Editor
After months of lengthy roundtable discussion, the citizens of Davenport and Rock Island were rewarded with the final draft of the River Vision plan. This $250,000 dream for drawing the two cities more closely together was co-sponsored by the two cities and drawn up by the Massachusetts consulting firm of Hargreaves Associates.
31 Aug 2004

Ridiculous Irony Abounds in Illinois Supreme-Court Race

By Rich Miller
A top advisor to an Illinois Supreme Court candidate who wants to end the lawsuit "crisis" has filed suit against two men who champion the rights of people who file lawsuits. Enough irony for you? There's more.
24 Aug 2004

Follow Up on Inspection Issue

By Letter to Editor
I am very impressed with your newspaper's Issue 487 about the rental inspections and fire inspections. Most newspapers will not print the truth. At one time I owned 27 rental units; I have sold all my residential units and purchased commercial units so I would not have to deal with the city inspections.
24 Aug 2004

Illinois Republicans Get Ready for a Whupping

By Rich Miller
It's probably not a good sign that at least two prominent speakers at the state fair's Republican Day event last week felt it was necessary to insist that the Illinois Republican Party is not dead. Other speakers worked hard to reinforce the not-dead theme by helpfully pointing out several possible signs of life.
17 Aug 2004

Obama Needs to Keep an Eye on Keyes

By Rich Miller
Word from on-high is that the national Senate Republicans are planning to contribute lots of money to Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes. It's not that the national poobahs actually believe Keyes can win, mind you.
17 Aug 2004

Who's Driving the Boat?

By Administrator
During last week's special meeting between Davenport's City Council and Levee Commission, Sixth Ward Alderman Bob McGivern declared that he wanted it made clear that the proposed casino hotel to be built on our downtown riverfront was in no way driving the Vision Iowa application currently in the works.
17 Aug 2004

Why Homeland Security Fails

By Stephen Handelman
On any given day 15 million shipping containers are in transit around the world, the workhorses of a global bazaar that most of us depend upon for the goods that prop up our lives. Could one of those containers carry a secret nuclear device? Would anyone find it? If you don't enjoy losing sleep about such questions, you probably don't want to spend much time around Stephen Flynn, a former U.
10 Aug 2004

Keyes Candidacy Disastrous for Illinois Republicans

By Rich Miller
I have a lot of respect for Illinois Senate Republican Leader Frank Watson, but I think he's gone off his rocker. Watson strongly supports the candidacy of Alan Keyes for U.S. Senate in Illinois. One of his lieutenants, state Senator Dave Syverson (R-Rockford), was the guy who recruited Keyes in the first place, talked him up to the media, and then helped convince the GOP state central committee to offer the vacant Jack Ryan slot to him, over the objections of party chairperson Judy Baar Topinka.

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