Todd McGreevy

This constitutional training resource Gibbs would implement if elected, prompts us to recall the questions we asked prior to the 2016 primary candidates for Scott County Sheriff (when Gibbs ran as a Republican) which, along with each candidate's 2016 responses, are re-printed below, along with our follow up question for the 2024 General Election.

Auditor Tompkins did not respond to our requests to participate in this printed forum. The invitation was extended for Tompkins to provide her responses by October 10, 2024, and we will supplement this article at our Web site with her responses. Tompkins has responded to none of the questions published in the September 2024 print edition and published online here Who Has Access and/or Control of County Election Data Before, During, and After an Election?, nor any of the questions provided below.

Two of the five Board of Supervisor seats are up for Scott County voters to elect into office November 5, 2024. Five candidates are running for two seats.

In keeping with the Reader's tradition during primary season, we are publishing a candidate questionnaire for each of the three Scott County offices on the ballot this election year. The following questions were emailed to the candidates below. The unedited responses will be published at the Reader's website May 8 through May 10, and then again in print on May 23, 2024, when the June Reader print edition hits the streets.

In keeping with the Reader’s tradition during primary season, we are publishing a candidate questionnaire for each of the three Scott County offices on the ballot this election year. The following questions were emailed to the candidates below. The unedited responses will be published at the Reader’s website May 8 through May 10, and then again in print on May 23, 2024, when the June Reader print edition hits the streets.

We’re switching up the format once again for the Reader’s annual year-in-music crowd-sourced survey, and expanded the participants to include even more local on-air radio broadcasters as well as picks from long time Reader readers.

Yes, “best-of” lists for the-year-in-music are “incomplete-and-largely-arbitrary,”as one local tastemaker described his picks for the best songs to make a 2017 album.Still, the River Cities’ Reader wants to share your feedback about the artists and songs that kept your head nodding and the volume jacked in 2023.Your curated recommendations widen our musical lenses.To this end, we hope this year’s new 5-4-3-2-1 category format prompts new reflections about the artists and music we value and treas

On Sunday evening, May 28, 2023, six stories of the west wall of the building known as The Davenport at 324 Main Street in downtown Davenport collapsed. Three people lost their lives in the tragedy. There is much controversy about city inspections, accountability and the building's owner Andrew Wold. Numerous lawsuits are in play. The building was originally a hotel built in 1907, had more than 50 tenants renting at the time of the collapse, and has since been demolished. Below, we publish the updates the city of Davenport chief strategy officer Sarah Ott issued to local and national media, in the order in which they were released.

We're very pleased to publish Douglas Tallamay's original essay for the Reader on the importance of oak trees. For an even deeper dive we highly recommend his 2021 book The Nature of Oaks. It's full of richly produced color photos and its presentation is a work of art unto itself. Here's an excerpt from the book, regarding how and why the oak tree is the “keystone species.”

We’re very pleased to publish Douglas Tallamay’s original essay for the Reader on the importance of oak trees. For an even deeper dive we highly recommend his 2021 book The Nature of Oaks. It’s full of richly produced color photos and its presentation is a work of art unto itself. Here’s an excerpt from the book, regarding how and why the oak tree is the “keystone species.”