Time for New Blood on Scott County Board of Supervisors
There are two Scott County Board of Supervisors seats up for grabs in this year’s election. Voters who want a supervisor who actually supervises and reads the materials being presented prior to a vote...
View ArticleA Good Definition of “Unsustainable”: Beneficiaries Negotiating Benefits...
Pensions are among the most important investments American workers and employers make. We work for years so that when the time comes, we can retire with enough income to live comfortably, enjoy the...
View ArticleA Government Guided by Peace and Tolerance
The media cartels, currently the public-relations arm of politicians (and their bureaucracies) and the corporate elite, lend their full cooperation in censoring ideas that inform political debate in...
View ArticleWho’s Watching the Food & Water Watchers?
We are what we eat is an age-old adage that has more implications than ever in the context of modern-day science and biotechnological experimentation with the genetic makeup of the food we eat. Whether...
View ArticleThe Tables Are Turning on the Fluoridation Debate
In the 1940s and ’50s, print and TV ads depicted, of all things, doctors and professional athletes enjoying the soothing benefits of smoking cigarettes. One TV spot stated, “In a repeated national...
View ArticleNo Society Can Live Free with So Little Civic Participation
Americans have serious problems to sort out sooner than later. The problem with our problems is that they are so ill-defined by the mainstream media (TV, radio, print) upon which too many of us depend...
View ArticleKnowledge Is Power
It is glaringly obvious that the tragedy surrounding the Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut, shootings is being grossly objectified to achieve a political agenda of disarming Americans. I am no...
View ArticleSpeed Bump Ahead: Police and County Attorney Moved Too Fast to Prosecute...
(Note: Links to PDF documents can be found within this article.) Last week, justice was served in Scott County when a jury of 12 level-headed Iowans found Keith Meyer, Davenport’s former Ward 3...
View ArticleQuestion Corporate Media’s Version of Events
Try not to blindly accept the emerging “official story” behind the Boston Marathon bombing, and instead view it though a prism of healthy skepticism. Question the corporate media cartel’s versions of...
View ArticleRights Are Non-Negotiable
I’m beginning to have a modicum of hope for perpetually misinformed Americans. The turning point occurred when, after the attacks on the three World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon on September...
View ArticleAmerican Lemmings and Crony Capitalism
It’s become a fascination to observe what I refer to as the American “lemming effect.” So far, government overreach – no matter how egregious, harmful, dangerous, or in some cases lethal – has elicited...
View ArticleInsider Threats
The most rudimentary research on the U.S. government’s illegal mass surveillance of Americans will reveal that this unconstitutional practice has been ongoing since at least J. Edgar Hoover’s days....
View ArticleTime to Review Davenport’s 60-Year-Old Fluoridation Agreement
(Publisher’s note: It’s time for Davenport’s city leaders to carefully and seriously review the requirements, terms, and benefits of a 60-year-old contract that has resulted in the practice of...
View ArticleLearning to Listen to Stories
A short course in learning the language of transition is soon to be offered in the Quad Cities, and it’s one to attend if you’re encountering changes in your life. Present or past, all can be reviewed...
View ArticleGovernment Secrecy Threatens America’s Rule of Law
The conclusion of John Whitehead’s August commentary “The NSA: The Abyss from Which There Is No Return” (RCReader.com/y/nsa1) deserves serious consideration: “Once you allow the government to start...
View ArticleCelebrating 20 Years of the River Cities’ Reader
Twenty years of questioning the status quo and providing readers with exhaustive resources and perspectives on all things cultural in the Quad Cities merits some reflection and review. We continue to...
View ArticleUnder the Radar: Common Core in Our Schools
As Americans, we had better revisit what the Bill of Rights means to our country’s future, because the individual protections that the Bill of Rights provides each of us are in real jeopardy. There has...
View ArticleCounty Supervisors Rubber Stamp E-Mail Destruction Policy
On December 19, the Scott County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to adopt the following language for the information-technology (IT) policy for county staff: “The IT Department will maintain a...
View ArticleFederal Creep Into Local Counties and Municipalities Is Accelerating
Who do you think is responsible for the performance of elected representatives and the thousands of agencies/bureaucracies throughout local, state, and federal government? Who do you think is...
View ArticleThe Cost of Freedom of Information
Late last year, I published a commentary on the questionable policy implementation by the Scott County Board of Supervisors, at the request of staff, to indiscriminately destroy e-mails more than three...
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