02 Nov 2000

Local Election 2000....

By Letter to Editor
What are the three most pressing issues likely to face your government body during your term, and what specifically would you support to address them? Moroney: Teacher-pay legis lation should not dilute local control; parents need more options for their children, not fewer.
02 Nov 2000

Local Election 2000.....

By Letter to Editor
What are the three most pressing issues likely to face your government body during your term, and what specifically would you support to address them? Ryan: Taxes - property, pension, Social Security benefits, federal deductability.
02 Nov 2000

Election 2000......

By Letter to Editor
What are the three most pressing issues likely to face your government body during your term, and what specifically would you support to address them? Sunderbruch: Taxes - relief in property, pension, Social Security benefits.
02 Nov 2000

Election 2000.......

By Letter to Editor
What are the three most pressing issues likely to face your government body during your term, and what specifically would you support to address them? Ewoldt: Economic development is always important and the board needs to continue to work with all municipalities in the county to attract new and expanding businesses to enhance our tax base.
02 Nov 2000

Election 2000........

By Letter to Editor
Rosemary Gordy: Candidate did not provide answers to survey questions. She did, however, send the following letter: Although I found your questionnaire interesting, you asked for specifics that are based on suppositions on issues that may or may not arise.
31 Oct 2000

Local Election 2000.

By Letter to Editor
What are the three most pressing issues likely to face your government body during your term, and what specifically would you support to address them? Millage: Raising teacher salaries to be competitive with other states and other occupations.
31 Oct 2000

What Choice?

By Jeff Ignatius
In elections, candidates for less-prominent offices typically ride the coattails of the people at the top of the ticket. That assumes, of course, that there are candidates to get pulled along. In Rock Island County, there aren't.
31 Oct 2000

Local Election 2000..

By Letter to Editor
What are the three most pressing issues likely to face your government body during your term, and what specifically would you support to address them? Deluhery: Better schools, safe neighborhoods, and good-paying jobs are the biggest needs.
25 Oct 2000

Schools Face Fallout From Low Wages

By Jeff Ignatius
The Bettendorf school district is in the second year of a three-year early retirement program, designed to cut costs and balance the age and experience levels of what had been a graying teaching corps. The early-retirement incentives are working, but the departure of a large number of teachers brings with it one serious challenge: finding the people to replace them.
25 Oct 2000

Got Sprawl? Get Smart.

By Kathleen McCarthy
Over the past five years, Tax Increment Financing (TIF) has come to a proverbial head in Iowa, especially Davenport. Davenport's controversial track record in applying TIF within its economic development policies has brought the debate to the City's public arena, where TIF is now, and has been, greatly challenged by various citizens groups, including Citizens United for Responsible Vision (CURV), QC Interfaith (QCI), and 1,000 Friends of Iowa (TFOI).

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