05 Oct 2004

Iowa Students Score Above Average on National Exams

By Joe Collins
• High school students in Iowa continued their strong showing on the SAT college-entrance exam and have increased access to Advanced Placement classes, according to the 2004 summary report from the College Board.
05 Oct 2004

Top Ten Censored Stories of 2003-2004

By Deanna Zandt and Evan Derkacz
In Minot, North Dakota, in 2002, a train derailed at 1:30 a.m., spilling 200,000 gallons of deadly gas. All six commercial radio stations in the area were owned by Clear Channel, and all six were fully automated.
28 Sep 2004

Iowa Accepts Applications for Legislative Pages

By Joe Collins
• Applications are currently being accepted for the legislative page program, which is an opportunity for ambitious high-school juniors and seniors to be employed by the Iowa House of Representatives, Iowa Senate, or Legislative Services Agency.
28 Sep 2004

MyPlane Lands at Elliot

By Todd McGreevy
MyPlane, a fractional-ownership air-travel service, had an open house at Elliot Aviation air field in Moline last Wednesday. MyPlane is a sister company to Short's Travel Management, which is headquartered in Waterloo, Iowa.
28 Sep 2004

Can Arts and Culture Put Heads in Beds?

By Jeff Ignatius
Don Wooten says the Quad Cities have a vibrant enough collection of cultural organizations to support a much larger population. "We have so many different arts and cultural organizations," said Wooten, the primary artistic force behind the Genesius Guild's classic theatre and the chair of Quad Cities Presenters, Incorporated.
21 Sep 2004

Black Hawk Collects Textbooks for Macedonia

By Joe Collins
• Twenty-five boxes containing 645 books are en route to a K-12 school in Skopje, Macedonia, the result of a successful book-donation drive at Black Hawk College (BHC). Many are science, business, computer-science, and English textbooks that would be nearly impossible to obtain in Macedonia, a small eastern-European nation with 40-percent unemployment.
21 Sep 2004

Salvaging a Pearl Near the Muscatine Riverfront

By Jeff Ignatius
Tom Meeker has a folksy charm, speaking in a low voice that can sound gruff and clipped on the phone but is transformed when you meet him in person. His face is open and warm, and he comes off as one of the friendliest people on the planet.
14 Sep 2004

Bettendorf Dumps DARE Program

By Joe Collins
• In a press release issued by Bettendorf Police Chief Phil Reddington and Assistant Superintendent Carol Webb, Bettendorf Community Schools will be "altering its fifth-grade substance-abuse program for the 2004-2005 school year.
14 Sep 2004

Riverssance Grows, with Big Hopes for the Future

By Jeff Ignatius
With the economy emerging from the doldrums, Director Larry DeVilbiss expects big things out of the 17th Annual Riverssance Festival of Fine Art, held on Saturday and Sunday at Lindsay Park in the Village of East Davenport.
14 Sep 2004

Wineries Confront the Challenges of Making Quality Iowa Wines

By Jeff Ignatius
There are many ways to make wine in Iowa, but one of the biggest differences among the state's wineries is the degree to which they use Iowa grapes. The three wineries in the Riverssance wine garden will give festival-goers an opportunity to sample the results from across that spectrum.

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