01 May 2001

Low-Power Radio: The Revolution Will Be Broadcast

By Tucker Teutsch
Publisher's Note: We picked up this story from a fellow independent paper, the San Antonio Current. This is critical information in the new and emerging economies of data, access and information.
24 Apr 2001

Special Needs Playground Added to Bettendorf's Rocket Park

By Administrator
• The Junior League of the Quad Cities is working in conjunction with the City of Bettendorf to add a play area in McManus Park (better known as Rocket Park) just off Interstate 74 to meet the needs of children with physical disabilities.
17 Apr 2001

Ozone Season Begins

By Joe Collins
• The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has resumed monitoring ground-level ozone, often called smog. State and local agencies use the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index to provide general information to the public about air quality and associated health effects.
17 Apr 2001

The Top 10 Censored Stories of 2000

By Alternet
Have you read the one about corporations planning to charge you hundreds of dollars a month for your tap water? Or the one about military "psychological operations" specialists manipulating viewers of CNN? What about the highly skilled programmers in Silicon Valley who, because they are immigrants, are laboring under sweatshop-like conditions? If none of these stories rings a bell, it's not because you've missed the latest e-mail hoax.
03 Apr 2001

Take a Good Look Around

By Todd McGreevy
Is anyone else getting tired of the world-according-to-the-armchair-quarterbacks-at-the- Quad-City-Times? Case in point: "Keeping Score in the Quality of Life," published on Sunday, March 25. Drawing on "the observations of hundreds of Quad Citians, scores of reports, and visits to other similarly sized U.
27 Mar 2001

Iowa Legislature Mulls Raising Sales Tax

By Joe Collins
• The Iowa House of Representatives will be looking at a proposal to raise the state's sales tax to 6 percent and use the money to pay for school construction and repair. Inspired by the success of a 1998 law that allowed counties to pass a 1-cent sales-tax increase to pay for school capital projects, the bill aims to provide property-tax relief and tax equity statewide.
20 Mar 2001

Bettendorf Fire Department Gets Truck, No New Firefighters

By Joe Collins
• The Bettendorf City Council recently approved a budget that includes purchase of a new $600,000 fire truck but doesn't include any money for new personnel. This is despite an $85,000 study last year that recommended adding at least four paid firefighters and a captain to the department, which currently has 37 volunteers and 18 paid members.
13 Mar 2001

Best of the Quad Cities 2000

By No Author
For the fifth consecutive year, the River Cities' Reader offers the results of our annual Best of the Quad Cities poll. The ballots were printed in December of last year, and the results reflect our readership's views on what was best in Y2K.
13 Mar 2001

Another Pathetic Voter Turnout

By Joe Collins
• A mere 10,562 of the 63,236 regis- tered voters in Davenport (17 percent) bothered to vote in last week's election. Davenport residents had more at stake in the election than other Scott County residents, as they got to winnow down the list of candidates for alderman-at-large in a primary, as well as choose a sheriff.
06 Mar 2001

Mediacom Communications Buys Local Cable

By Joe Collins
• The continuing saga of "Who owns your cable company?" has taken another interesting twist with the recent acquisition of Quad City metropolitan area cable operations by Mediacom Communications from AT&T Broadband Communications in a $2.

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