Stories

The Green Party of the United States filed a lawsuit against the City of Davenport and the local chamber of commerce alleging its members were prevented from collecting petitions for a presidential candidate at a street festival last year, the Quad-City Times reports.

The nationwide median price for existing homes dropped again in the first quarter of 2009, but Davenport, IA, was one of a few cities that reversed the trend.  The city’s 14 percent increase in the median home price was the second largest in the nation.

The Linn County sales tax vote isn’t the only thing to be decided by voters Tuesday.  Davenport residents are deciding whether to use a third of the profits from the city’s local option sales tax to pay college tuition for local students in an effort to draw more families and businesses to the eastern Iowa [...]

The retired Quad Cities minister who delivered a controversial invocation at John McCain’s Saturday rally in Davenport was “honored” Monday at the “Worst Person in The World” by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.

The Vietnamese community in the Quad Cities gathered Saturday in Davenport to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

The Tet celebration, attended by more than 1,500, featured traditional dance and music performances as well as solemn ceremonies honoring ancestors.

For the thousands of Vietnamese immigrants making their homes in the Quad Cities, Tet marks the beginning of the [...]

Presidential candidate Chris Dodd led a round-table discussion, “Our Families, Our Future: Putting Women and Families First,” at Davenport’s Family Resources, Inc. on Monday afternoon.  Joined by his sister, Martha Buonanno, Dodd listened as social services workers and agency directors asked questions and related some of their clients’ stories.  He made previous stops at Des [...]

Former state Sen. Maggie Tinsman is pro-choice and also one of four state co-chairs for Rudy Giuliani’s Iowa campaign. 

She said that it wasn’t just his “phenomenal” response to 9/11 that attracted her to Giuliani.  Like her, Giuliani is pro-choice but “against abortion.”  According to Tinsman, Giuliani “doesn’t think the government should be involved with people’s [...]

There was a distinct disconnect last night at the AARP and Iowa Public Television “Divided We Fail” Democratic presidential forum between what happened on the stage between participating candidates — Sen. Joe Biden, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Chris Dodd, former Sen. John Edwards and Gov. Bill Richardson — and what happened throughout downtown Davenport following [...]

During an AARP presidential forum in Davenport, John Edwards questioned Sen. Hillary Clinton’s health care plan because it was “similar” to his own plan but six months late.

But following the event, it was Sen. Chris Dodd who offered this advice to Clinton, “if you’re going to talk about experience, I’d be reluctant to talk about [...]

The live blog, as well as the event, has now completed.
Adam Burke was on hand in Davenport tonight and will have video from the event available. I’ll have a more thorough report tomorrow, once I have time to digest both the forum and the after-event receptions for the various candidates.