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Joseph Stiglitz talks about his new book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
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Labor historian Steve Babson, author of Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy.
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Mayor Mike Thoms hopes lawmakers will keep Rock Island in mind when making budget and grant decisions this year.
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The city of Davenport is asking a judge if it needs to release a letter from former chief administrator Corri Spiegel.
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GovernmentDemocratic State Auditor Rob Sand said Thursday a law passed last year to limit his authority has allowed a state agency to keep him from viewing key documents, and he warned that a new bill advanced this week by Republicans in the Iowa Senate would further hamstring his ability to root out government waste, fraud and abuse.
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Davenport is limiting public comments at its city council meetings, starting next week.
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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker visited the Aldridge Early Learning Center in East Moline Tuesday morning.
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Campaigns & ElectionsPatrick Ruffini, Republican pollster and co-founder of Echelon Insights, talks about his new book, Party of the People Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP, including the causes of working class voters shifting to the Republicans, key insights into the educational divide, the interplay of culture, class and race, and much more.
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EnvironmentPeople who enjoy fishing on the Upper Mississippi River are concerned about pelicans -- and the huge amount of fish they eat. A group of fishermen started a pelican petition to request a study about the nesting colonies north of the Quad Cities.
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Jerry Nowicki, Editor-in-Chief of Capitol News Illinois, discusses the top five headlines of 2023 and predicts the top stories of 2024.
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The Illinois Board of Higher Education awarded $400 million in grants to help students at a total of 45 private colleges across the state.
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The city of Rock Island is over 500 acres larger than it was a year ago.