18 Feb 2003

Best of the Quad Cities 2002

By No Author
For the seventh annual Best of the Quad Cities issue, we've gotten bigger than ever. We've added categories, and voting this year brought in the largest number of ballots we've ever had. (We allowed online voting for the first time.
11 Feb 2003

Susan G. Komen Foundation Announces Awards

By Joe Collins
• The Quad Cities affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has announced its 2003 grant recipients for projects supporting breast-cancer education, screening, and treatment of the medically undeserved.
11 Feb 2003

Why Does Everybody Love Michael Blouin?

By Jeff Ignatius
As Michael Blouin tells it, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack wanted a fresh start on the issue of economic development heading into his second term. Blouin related that Vilsack told him, "I listened to the wrong people" when trying to formulate ways to jump-start the state's sagging economy.
04 Feb 2003

GAO Report Exposes DARE as Complete Failure

By Joe Collins
• According to a General Accounting Office (GAO) report evaluating the long-term effectiveness of the DARE program, DARE does not influence graduates to refrain from experimenting with illicit drugs. DARE receives an estimated $230 million in federal and corporate subsidies to offer its curriculum in approximately 80 percent of public schools.
04 Feb 2003

The Trial of Ed Rosenthal

By Ann Harrison
They viewed the glossy color photographs of meticulously tended marijuana mother plants flourishing under timed lights inside an Oakland, California, warehouse. Then they watched a videotape showing DEA agents uprooting nearby marijuana cuttings to determine which had roots, and could thus be considered "plants" under the federal sentencing guidelines.
04 Feb 2003

The View from Next Door

By Jill Walsh
Before the first rehearsal of Alison's House, I wasn't sure what to expect. Though I had already read Davenport native Susan Glaspell's script and endured six hours of auditions, my experiences as stage manager were just beginning.
27 Jan 2003

Drug Czar Dumps $4 Million into Super Bowl Advertising

By Joe Collins
• According to reports published in AdAge magazine, the office of the White House Drug Czar spent more than $4 million to air anti-drug public-service announcements during this past weekend's Super Bowl broadcast.
27 Jan 2003

The Most Judgment-Impairing Super Bowl Ads

By Todd McGreevy
Pregnancy Ad scene: two white 30-something parents hover over an early pregnancy test sound: no music, just tense ambient noise screen script: "There will be an addition soon to their family.
21 Jan 2003

Iowa Senators Unite Against Total Information Awareness Project

By Joe Collins
• U.S. Senators from Iowa Charles Grassley (a Republican) and Tom Harkin (a Democrat) joined a group of their upper-chamber colleagues supporting legislation introduced by Senator Russell Feingold (a Wisconsin Democrat) on the development of the controversial Total Information Awareness (TIA) project.
14 Jan 2003

Gambling Boats Might Face Tax Increase

By Joe Collins
• One of the tasks Iowa lawmakers will have to deal with involves an Iowa Supreme Court decision from June that it was unconstitutional to tax racetrack casinos at a higher rate - 32 percent - than riverboat casinos, which are taxed at 20 percent.

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