This year’s city council races in the metro Quad-Cities aren’t quite as vigorous as the contests for school board.
Much as Colin Powell deserves a tribute as America’s first Black secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was under-re…
The Biden administration has acknowledged that in the last fiscal year the U.S. failed to issue roughly 80,000 green cards that should have be…
This week, the Rock Island County Board is set to consider an agreement between the county, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and t…
A strike at Deere & Co. means something in the Quad-Cities.
The an editorial from the opinion page.
Last Sunday, Illinois’ eviction moratorium ended.
Ever since, and even before, George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year, the use of force by police has been a top conc…
Thumbs Up …. To the news the federal government has approved a waiver to the Buy America law that will allow the construction of an elevator a…
On Tuesday, Iowa lawmakers will gather to consider proposed new boundaries for congressional and state legislative districts.
As a candidate for president, Joe Biden said the Trump administration’s trade war with China and tit-for-tat tariffs were a drag on the U.S. e…
Thumbs Up ... to the Quad-Cities River Bandits for their championship season, capped Sunday with a 5-0 win over the Cedar Rapids Kernels in th…
Britain’s rumpled Prime Minister Boris Johnson has plenty of reasons to fear the press.
As of today, electric vehicles constitute an exceedingly small portion of the U.S. vehicle market.
Thumbs Up … to the Pleasant Valley High School for being designated a "Blue Ribbon" school by the U.S. Department of Education.
The memory of Biden not taking questions after major addresses on Aug. 16, Aug. 18, Aug. 31, and Sept. 9 started to smart, and many reporters …
Journey with us, if you will, all the way back to August 2019. In a budget deal passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump, Washi…
The scenes from the border are dire and heart-rending. More than 14,000 migrants, most of them Haitians, crowded under and near a bridge in a …
A lawsuit with more than a million plaintiffs?
Most of us agree that tax law should be fair and equitable and that government spending should stay within fiscal means. But when the spending…
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A federal judge’s decision to block the Iowa law preventing local school boards from instituting mask mandates to control the spread of COVID-…
Thumbs Up … to Augustana College, Western Illinois University and St. Ambrose University, which improved their standing in this year's US News…
Often, we don’t see them. But across the Quad-Cities, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who toil each day making life livable fo…
Over the last few weeks, we've learned of two costly email scams that have conned local governments in the Quad-Cities out of hundreds of thou…
Then-President Donald Trump’s catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic last year has already secured his place among the worst presidents in A…
Makers and sellers of prescription painkillers will soon begin paying out billions of dollars to settle lawsuits that have accused them of fue…
Twenty years on, it doesn’t seem possible to truly conjure up the horror of that September day. The shock we felt as a country when, on Sept. …
