The Rock Island County State’s Attorney’s office made it pretty clear: The public probably will never know what action it will take regarding …
What happened in Moline’s elections last week is a rarity in the Quad-Cities. We can’t remember the last time voters rejected a mayor and all …
State Auditor Rob Sand made it clear last week: The Davenport School Board’s 2019 sale of Lincoln Elementary School to a non-profit was inappr…
Thumbs Up ... to the partnership between Augustana College and the Eastern Iowa Community Colleges. The agreement, called Augustana Next, allo…
The Iowa Legislature is heading into the home stretch. Last week, the second funnel deadline passed, and a number of bills that hadn’t made su…
As this was being written, we didn't know who would win this year’s contentious race for Moline mayor.
On Tuesday, Illinois voters will go to the polls to elect a range of local government officials.
Last week, a district court judge sided with Scott County Supervisor John Maxwell and overturned a three-person panel’s decision to declare hi…
Thumbs Up … to the significant improvements in the offing for the Quad-Cities International Airport.
If we’re in a race, the Rock Island County Health Department just took a great leap forward.
Today is Palm Sunday, the mid-point of Passiontide, the two-week period leading up to Easter, Christianity’s foundational feast. It is also th…
When Rita Hart announced she was going to appeal her historic 6-vote loss to Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks to the U.S. House of Representative…
Illinois Quad-Citians have a chance this week to make their voices heard on a vitally important long-term issue.
Thumbs Up ... to Chad Pregracke, the Quad-City environmentalist who proposed last week that we set up a national wildlife park using the vacat…
On the same day a gunman walked into a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, and killed 10 people with a gun, the Iowa Senate passed a bill that…
Legislators in Illinois and Iowa have begun the once-per-decade process of redrawing political boundaries.
Thumbs Up … to the Bettendorf City Council for voting to make its park board an advisory panel. Long an elected body, the board has served the…
After a year of Covid-19, we have found how much what we do affects others.
Today, we offer the last of our endorsements ahead of the April 6 municipal elections in Illinois.
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The move to ban traffic enforcement cameras in Iowa is a perennial in the Iowa Legislature. It happens so often, you’d think it was one of tho…
Today, we continue our endorsements leading up to the April 6 municipal elections in Illinois.
If there’s one issue we’ve heard about most in the Moline city elections, it’s the revolving door at City Hall.
Four years ago, Mike Thoms won a convincing victory over three rivals to become Rock Island mayor. With more than 50% of the vote, it was a ri…
Beginning this week, the people of Illinois will make some important choices for their futures as they begin voting early in advance of the Ap…
The Rock Island County Board is moving ahead on the question that seems to have plagued it for years: What size should it be?
Thumbs Up ... to the news this week that Riverssance will return this September to Lindsay Park in the Village of East Davenport.
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