No Child Left Behind test scores are out in Illinois and the results are tiredly the same.
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More powerful than a locomotive. That Superman-esque achievement also works for Quad-City high school students, whose 347 tons of food collected this year exceed the weight of two locomotives.
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U.S. Rep. Mike Boland made his lieutenant governor aspirations official this week, and we wish him luck. Boland has been eyeing the spot since at least 2001 and faces a tough challenge.
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Congratulations and condolences to the winners of Tuesday's municipal elections.
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Iowa's state universities are reacting swiftly and comprehensively to the sadly predictable news of the state's revenue shortfall. When Iowans are making less and shopping less, the revenue derived from income, sales and other tax streams goes down as well.
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An old receipt dated June 24, 2000, still sits in the keepsake drawer on my desk.
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SAN DIEGO - It's time to send U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York a slew of calendars.
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SAN DIEGO - It's time to send U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York a slew of calendars.
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It's been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. "This is a doctor," she said, pointing to one picture. "This is a teacher." It was impossible to tell one woman from another under the burqas enforced by their Taliban rulers.
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You've got to admire the do-it-yourselfers.
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If my grandparents, Kate and George Traenkenschuh, were alive today you can bet they would have been the first in line to attend the grand opening of Café Now, Friday, Nov. 13, at the Rock Island County Senior Center, 2221 11th St., Rock Island.
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I last heard from Jim Hodges about 1½ months ago when he called wanting more information about a man about whose hobby is investigating prehistoric rock art in northeastern Iowa.
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Anthony McKinney got a life sentence for running down the street.
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Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday's elections is historical. It demolishes the grea…
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WASHINGTON - A couple weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from her hometown of Salisbury, N.C., who had been flown to Washington that morning to get thei…
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