A wonderful reception greeted U.S. Rep. Phil Hare at Seaford Clothing Tuesday when he returned to the Rock Island plant that launched his political career.
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For all the grievances against the king of England so eloquently stated in our Declaration of Independence, here's the one that likely will draw a crowd in downtown Davenport today: "Imposing taxes on us without our consent."
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Davenport's population has again surpassed 100,000, according to U.S. Census estimates, marking a major milestone for a city that has desperately fought back from a decline caused by the farm-economy crisis of the 1980s.
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Iowa chalks up a year of a partial smoking ban and guess what? The state's tavern and restaurant industry hasn't tanked.
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Iowa's most successful division of government just reached a milestone. Revenue from the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division topped $100 million for the first time this year.
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While most Quad-Citians gingerly dance around any references to sexually transmitted disease, Dr. Louis Katz brazenly led with blunt candor. He was "disgusted" when a nation went gaga over Magic Johnson's confession of an HIV infection. While much of America viewed Johnson as a sympatheti…
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It was a fairly ugly controversy about seven months ago.
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I try not to be a "grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" person. Really I don't.
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Ah, yes, summer is humming along.
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Ah, yes, summer is humming along.
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Friends consider my obsession with animals to be a character flaw. I cannot resist patting pooches any more than I can resist a good animal story.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's ruling on the Ricci case - that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they did well was thrown out because not enough blacks did well - will have no effect on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court.
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MOSCOW - As Barack Obama packs his suitcase for his trip to Russia next week, he should bring along a copy of "The Brothers Karamazov." For the modern Russia of Vladimir Putin is still struggling with the same political riddles that Fyodor Dostoyevsky described 130 years ago.
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Once, the comedian Red Skelton was in Davenport and we spent a day together. We shopped at Target, made the rounds of NorthPark and visited with strangers who still remembered him as Clem Kaddidlehopper and Freddy the Freeloader.
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As one who is critical of racial preferences, I'm surprised to find myself disappointed in the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, a case involving a group of mostly white firefighters in New Haven, Conn. They alleged "reverse discrimination" after the city threw out a pro…
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