05 Mar 2002

Motivated Parents Appeal School Board's Decision to Close Schools

By Administrator
When the Davenport School Board (DSB), in its usual display of arrogance and disrespect for students, parents, and the public at large, voted 6-1 to close Grant and Johnson elementary schools this past January, concerned parents decided to appeal the school board's decision to the Iowa Board of Education.
05 Mar 2002

School-Closing Appeal Goes to Hearing Panel

By Jeff Ignatius
Editor's note: This story went to press before the Davenport Community School District agreed to re-visit at its March 11 meeting the issue of closing Johnson and Grant schools. The hearing on the appeal was continued to April 5.
05 Mar 2002

SJW Explores Diversity, Influence, and Integrity in Journalism

By Kathleen McCarthy
Central High School's Scholastic Journalism Week (SJW) is an imaginative program that began in 1995, thanks to the vision of Central's preeminent journalism teacher, Deb Buttleman Malcom, and her dedicated students.
05 Mar 2002

Nine Zeroes and a One

By Garry Lee Wright
Housing starts were up last quarter, which is good news for everyone who's been living on canned soup and sending their résumés to Monster.com. Economists say that signals the beginning of the end of the recession, which is just in time.
26 Feb 2002

Congressional Hearings on Enron Resemble a Toothless, Clawless Bear

By Kathleen McCarthy
The congressional investigation of the Enron debacle is frustrating, to say the least. Both House and Senate participants are clearly unqualified to probe the complex financial and political issues that characterize Enron's dirty dealings.
26 Feb 2002

Don't Impreza My Vitara, You Prius

By Administrator
As if the economy, the Enron debacle, and those crooked Olympic judges weren't enough, there's another crisis brewing: We're running out of macho names for cars. It's been happening over the past few years.
19 Feb 2002

Trust Us

By Jeff Ignatius
Supporters of cultural organizations will descend on Des Moines this week to lobby Iowa legislators for a $10 million trust fund that could be a long-term - albeit relatively minor - funding source for arts groups.
19 Feb 2002

March for Cultural Trust Fund

By Kathleen McCarthy
The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs (IDCA) has articulated a brilliant concept in the form of a bill currently before the state legislature to provide funding for arts and culture. The IDCA is asking legislators to appropriate $1 million annually for the next 10 years to help seed a new "cultural trust" for operational support of arts/culture-related organizations throughout Iowa.
19 Feb 2002

Filibusters

By Garry Lee Wright
"Will the Senator yield?" "No, I will not yield. The whole idea of a filibuster is to keep talking until everybody gives up. Didn't you take any history courses in high school?" "You can't kill this campaign-finance-reform bill, Mitch.
12 Feb 2002

Rhetoric Should Be Toned Down on School Closings

By Letter to Editor
I appreciate your sentiments regarding the Davenport Community School District's recent decision to close Grant and Johnson elementary schools. (See River Cities' Reader Issue 359, January 30-February 5, 2002.

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