WOODHULL — Upon completing a highly successful prep golfing career, AlWood High School senior Tom Bumann found himself looking at a wide range of college options.
A roundup of legislative and state government issues of interest for Tuesday:
Gov. Pritzker expects business tax change will be revisited in 102nd General Assembly
DES MOINES — Republicans on a Senate subcommittee on Thursday advanced legislation that would reinstate a limited death penalty for Iowans aged 18 or older who are convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a minor despite overwhelming opposition from people who spoke at the remote hearing.
Project NOW’s Low Income Housing Assistance program (known as LIHEAP) still has available funding for residents in Rock Island, Henry and Mercer counties struggling to pay their heating bills.
SPRINGFIELD — A bill aimed at improving racial equity throughout the state’s K-12 and higher-education system passed both houses of the General Assembly on Monday, while another bill addressing economic inequities was up for House approval Tuesday night.
SPRINGFIELD – A House committee on Monday advanced a bill that would end the system of hiring private insurance companies to manage the state’s Medicaid program at the end of their current contracts and replace it with a standard fee-for-service payment system.
SPRINGFIELD — The House Executive Committee advanced an election bill that would make permanent some of the expansions to mail-in voting that were passed for the 2020 general election.
Bill would create task force to define, establish ‘trauma-responsive schools’
SPRINGFIELD – While the number of new COVID-19 cases and people hospitalized in Illinois continue to decline, the state’s coronavirus death toll has surpassed 16,000.
SPRINGFIELD — Unemployment rates swelled in all Illinois metro areas over the past year, primarily because of business closures in response to limiting the spread of COVID-19.
AP News Minute: Congress passed a long-awaited $900 billion coronavirus aid bill last night, the nation's top infectious disease expert receiv…
Take a look at your bill each month and make sure the costs are within a normal range. If you’ve been in your home a while, you should have a pretty good idea of what heating will cost each month. Many utility companies also make older bills available online – if you suspect something’s up, compare this year’s bill to previous years. An unexpectedly high gas or electric bill can sometimes indicate a hidden problem.
Because of increasing cases of COVID-19, Bettendorf City Hall will be closed to the public beginning Thursday, Dec. 10, until further notice.
Bettendorf City Hall will be closed to the public until further notice beginning Thursday, December 10, because of the increasing cases of COVID-19.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is suggesting that lawmakers pass COVID relief legislation with controversial issues, such as aid to st…
When Philip Weiss, a systems engineer in New Jersey, saw the rustic house on a four-acre lot in the Poconos, it was love at first sight. He was preapproved for…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says President Donald Trump would sign a proposal for COVID-19 relief funding backed by Senate Majority Lead…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are set to reconvene their conversations about COVID relief and other …
Every congressman, every senator — the president of the United States — each and every one of them should be forced to sit with the stack of letters Moline businesses sent to City Hall recently asking for financial help from the pandemic.
Rock Island City Hall will close until further notice to the public beginning Monday due to the state’s transition to Tier 3 mitigation as coronavirus cases continue to rise.
Winter weather can take a toll on your house. Here are a few ways you can take some of the pressure off it and keep energy bills from skyrocketing.
One will happily take your mind off politics. The other is like going to a class reunion with folks you don’t really care to see.
Not only do we receive consistently excellent service from our delivery person, the person is truly honest. One day recently there were three one-dollar bills inside the plastic bag containing the paper. We checked with a couple of neighbors who might have put them there for some reason, but none were involved. We put the money in an envelope taped to the door where the delivery person would see it, saying they must have accidentally inserted it. The next morning the envelope was there with the money and a note saying that they had found the money on our lawn. Honesty, even in small things, is appreciated.
In his two terms in the Iowa House, Rep. Gary Mohr has joined his Republican colleagues in shameless theft from the people of Iowa. He stole from the taxpayers when he ignored an easy legislative fix to refunding the federal government for overbilling. He stole from teachers when he voted to limit their collective bargaining rights. He stole from women when he voted multiple times to take their autonomy. He repeatedly stole from voters when he backed bills that require voter identification, limited the power of county auditors, and instituted a poll tax on former felons. How many more freedoms will you allow Gary Mohr to take from you?