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Keith Paulsen of Morrison, Ill., gets a high like no other when he’s literally floating among the clouds.

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island."A suburban paradise" is how the Argus described the sixty acres at the edge of Rock Island. A public relations…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.When the Illinois Press Association chose Rock Island and Moline as the site for their 1871 annual meeting, the Twin…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.When the Reverend George Gale and his followers built their Eden on the Illinois prairie in 1836 as a place to train…

Jim Mertens talks with Rev. Dwight Ford, Executive Director of Project NOW, about Rock Island's new ordinance that severely affect the houseless and also talks with Bill Churchill from the Friends of Veterans Memorial Park about the next steps in finishing the park.

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Perhaps love really is blind, as Shakespeare claimed in The Merchant of Venice. How else to explain the epic poem Henry…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.The announcement that Elizbeth Cady Stanton, the famous campaigner for women's rights, was coming to speak at the…

The world-renowned saxophonist, a 32-year-old native of Winston-Salem, N.C., will be the featured soloist at this weekend’s Quad City Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concerts. Banks will play the concerto “Diaspora,” written by Billy Childs for Banks and commissioned by Young Concert Artists and 10 orchestras— the largest consortium ever for a saxophone work.

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.If a simple fence can make the grass greener on the other side, just think what a river like the Mississippi can do.…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.I wonder whatever possessed several young Rock Island ladies to demand equal rights back in 1916.That summer, Rock…