18 Mar 2003

Quad City Audubon Society Supports Schuetzen Park

By Joe Collins
• The Quad City Audubon Society contributed to the preservation of a local historic landmark and wilderness area with a bequest left to the society by member Ann Barker. The $5,000 donation, which was made at the March meeting of the Audubon Society, will benefit the Schuetzen Park Historic Site in west Davenport.
18 Mar 2003

Getting Our Fair Share

By Jeff Ignatius
The running joke for the Quad City Development Group's lobbying trip to Washington, D.C., last week was that the 70 attendees would be able to recite from memory the Rock Island Arsenal pitch given by Rock Island Mayor Mark Schwiebert.
09 Mar 2003

Davenport Receives Tax Credits for Affordable Housing

By Joe Collins
• The City of Davenport has announced that more than $18 million in federal tax credits have been awarded by the Iowa Finance Authority (IFA) to help produce 168 affordable and market-rate housing units in Davenport.
04 Mar 2003

Davenport School Board Seeking Candidates

By Joe Collins
• The Davenport Community School District Board is seeking candidate letters of interest to fill the board vacancy left by the resignation of Anne Losasso. The letter should be addressed to the school board and include the candidate's name, home address, phone number, e-mail, personal and/or professional background, and the reason he or she is interested in serving on the board.
25 Feb 2003

Iowa Senate Considers Flat Tax

By Joe Collins
• A proposal was unveiled in the Iowa Senate to replace Iowa's individual income-tax system with a single income tax rate of 3.5 percent, instead of the current "progressive" system with different rates for different income levels.
25 Feb 2003

Getting Clobbered

By Jeff Ignatius
Early in his campaign for Iowa state representative, Wayne Hean was given a prescient piece of advice from one of his supporters, Bill Gluba. He "told me right up front, 'We're going to have to do it on our own.
18 Feb 2003

Buffalo Seeks to Join River Trails

By Joe Collins
• At a Buffalo City Council meeting in January, city leaders voted to seek funding for the Buffalo Mississippi River Trail. The trail would become an integral part of two nationwide trail systems: the headwaters-to-the-gulf Mississippi River Trail and the coast-to-coast American Discovery Trail.
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.

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