19 Sep 2000

Marathon Brings Together Diverse Events

By Jeff Ignatius
It's the business of the Quad Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau to package, and in its first year running the Quad Cities Marathon, that's exactly what it's doing. The bureau, in organizing the third edition of the marathon, worked with arts and business organizations to build the race into a community-wide event that stretches for four days.
13 Sep 2000

Leach-Sponsored Bill Would Monitor Your Bank Account

By Joe Collins
U.S. Representative Jim Leach (R-IA) is the sponsor of bill HR 3886, the International Counter-Money Laundering and Foreign Anti-Corruption Act of 2000. Despite the title, one provision gives U.S. Treasury officials the specific power to impose "Know Your Customer-style regulations on U.
13 Sep 2000

East Moline Passes Preservation Ordinance

By Robert Jackson Jr.
The City of East Moline has passed a historic-preservation ordinance to promote the protection of historic and architectural character, as well as the resources of the city. A Historic Preservation Commission has been formed to guide and define these goals and consists of seven appointed members who are residents of the city.
13 Sep 2000

Building Character

By Jeff Ignatius
Carol Allred was ahead of her time. In the late 1970s, as a high-school teacher in Idaho, she decided to try to integrate something new into her English and psychology classes. "I kept thinking there were things we were not teaching," she said.
29 Aug 2000

Republicans Meet While Gore Floats

By Joe Collins
Coincidentally, Scott County Republicans had a meeting on the eve of Vice President Al Gore's campaign trip floating down the Mississippi River. The keynote speaker was former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, and U.
29 Aug 2000

A State of the Arts

By Jeff Ignatius
Newt Gingrich might be the best thing that ever happened to the arts. Really. When Gingrich ascended to the position of House Speaker in 1994, he and his cohorts in the short-lived Republican Revolution sparked a debate about public funding for the arts.
29 Aug 2000

Adler Works to Grow

By Jeff Ignatius
Like a lot of arts organizations, the Adler Theatre is thinking big. A bigger stage, a bigger lobby, bigger dressing rooms, bigger shows. All with money from the State of Iowa. That's the plan anyway.
22 Aug 2000

Warrior Traditions Revived in Celtic Festival

By Jeff Ignatius
Dan Cleaveland first got involved with the Celtic Highland Games of the Quad Cities as a sponsor. Then as a tug-of-war contestant. And then came the rock. "The first thing they do is give you a rock and say, 'You're going to throw this,'" said Cleaveland, co-owner of the Blue Cat Brew Pub.
16 Aug 2000

Iowa Takes $32,000 of Scott County's Option Tax

By Joe Collins
The state of Iowa is one of the beneficiaries of Scott County's one-cent option tax passed to renovate and expand schools. Earlier this year, Iowa lawmakers gave the Department of Revenue and Finance the authority to keep a share of local-option taxes to pay for administrative costs.
16 Aug 2000

Broken Beyond Repair?

By Jeff Ignatius
Another day, another consultant. Over the next few weeks, McDonald Transit Associates of Texas will be paying a visit to the Quad Cities to study the management of CitiBus, the City of Davenport's municipal mass-transit service.

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