About a week ago, U.S. Reps. Cheri Bustos, D-Illinois, and Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, announced that they had secured preliminary passage of $22.5…
Thumbs Up … to all those involved in the 47th running of the Quad-City Times Bix 7, which kicks off at 8 a.m. today.
With the finding Thursday by an Annapolis jury that the Capital Gazette gunman was indeed criminally responsible for the brutal, calculated mu…
How can we help working families the most? Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is a popular solution, but it’s a short-sighted one given t…
The widespread protests in Cuba mark a new challenge to the communist regime and a major test to the Biden administration. Thousands took to t…
The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan signals the end of a war that involved close to 800,000 American service members. Defending aga…
Richard Branson scraped the edge of space Sunday, arriving via a supersonic plane built by Virgin Galactic, a company he created. In so doing,…
They don’t make ’em like they used to.
As the Taliban extends its grip over Afghanistan and as Islamic State and other extremists continue to press their oppressive ideologies acros…
Next month, candidates who want to get elected to school boards and city councils in Iowa can begin filing nomination papers.
On Thursday, the state of Illinois announced the first winners of the COVID-19 vaccine lottery. The lucky $1 million winner was from Chicago, …
Thumbs Up … to the news that e-commerce giant Amazon is building a 640,000 square foot (2.9 million square feet over five stories) fulfillment…
In a little more than a year, the world's largest metal 3D printer will be moved to the Rock Island Arsenal.
Thumbs Up ... to the newfound ability of college athletes to share in some of the big money that flows into college sports. We've seen a sea c…
In six weeks, beginning in early May, four bicyclists lost their lives in collisions with motor vehicles in the Quad-Cities.
Thumbs Up ... to the news this week that both UnityPoint Health-Trinity and Genesis Health System reported no admissions for COVID-19. Tom Loe…
We should end the presidential presser for good. It accomplishes nothing, informs no one and makes everyone involved look small.
A week ago, one of the members of this editorial board got a letter from the Internal Revenue Service.
Thumbs Up ... to bipartisan majorities in Congress and President Joe Biden for making Juneteenth a national holiday, declaring June 19 a day t…
More than two years ago, Gary Martin walked into a disciplinary meeting with his supervisors at an Aurora, Illinois, valve manufacturing plant…
President Joe Biden's Justice Department has vowed to stop secretly obtaining reporters' records — finally.
Illinois lawmakers took a major step toward ridding the state of lead in its drinking water by passing the Lead Line Replacement and Notificat…
You can't say you weren't warned.
This is what real freedom looks like.
Thumbs Up ... to the reopening of Winnie's Place, which provides transitional housing and other services for women. Winnie's Place shut down l…
Unfortunately, the people of Davenport have become accustomed to gunfire. Still, the reports that early Sunday nearly 80 shots were fired down…
By all appearances, plans for a new 40-bed Juvenile Detention Center in Scott County are falling into place.
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