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…
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.
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As they prepare to spend $1.2 trillion on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, along with a vastly larger sum on a party-line social-policy bill,…
Last Sunday, Illinois’ eviction moratorium ended.
The Illinois Republican who voted to impeach President Donald Trump discusses his frustrations with partisan extremists.
Congressional testimony last week by the top Pentagon officials charged with the Afghanistan pullout made clear that President Joe Biden opted…
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…
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…
As of today, electric vehicles constitute an exceedingly small portion of the U.S. vehicle market.
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 …
A lawsuit with more than a million plaintiffs?
A federal judge’s decision to block the Iowa law preventing local school boards from instituting mask mandates to control the spread of COVID-…
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…
On this Labor Day weekend, as we pause to appreciate the American worker, we are nearing the second autumn of a public health emergency that h…
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Across Rock Island County, local governments are worried about what to do with their pension obligations.
Just as some Americans started feeling better about travel during the pandemic, airline passengers found they have another thing to worry abou…
For decades, the Mississippi River has all too often flooded downtown Davenport and other parts of the city, in many cases inflicting disastro…
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It was easy to open our doors to Afghan refugees 40 years ago because they were fleeing our adversaries, the Soviets. This time around it may …
Throughout the pandemic, we have seen COVID-19 exact its heaviest toll on older people living and working in nursing homes.
A radical new Missouri law declaring federal firearms restrictions unenforceable in the state isn’t even in effect yet, and already it’s hampe…
The chaotic end of America’s failed experiment in Afghanistan was readily apparent over the past week; from the mass hysteria at Kabul’s airpo…
Over the past week or so, we’ve had a bit of a problem following the City of Rock Island's process for considering whether to sell its water a…
