Other Episodes May 10, 2024 The Cities 5/11/24 The Cities 4/11/24 Listen · 27:15 ... Read More

How can Democrats compete in rural areas? Kal Munis, co-author of a Niskanen Center report, Gone Country: Why Democrats Need to Play in Rural America, and How They Can Do It Again , discusses how Democrats can win in rural areas and why it’s important for our country that both parties do better in adverse geographic territory. Other Episodes May 16, 2024 Nobel-winning... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Henry C. Kahl was born poor in a cottage in northwest Davenport, Iowa. He was never a Boy Scout, he was not in school long enough for the deportment side of the report card to instill in him the Protestant work ethic, and there’s no indication that he ever read Ben Franklin. It’s almost as if Henry knew instinctively that the American dream of “rags to riches” required something more than dreaming. Other Episodes ... Read More

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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. “Chippiannock” is a Sauk Indian word meaning “city of the dead,” a fit name for the city of Rock Island’s first cemetery, ninety-five acres lying on a plateau not far from Saukenuk, where the war chief Black Hawk grew up. The place was originally called Manitou Ridge because of the Indians’ belief that here the Great Spirit spread his wings among the hills to keep floods away. Other Episodes ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. When Alexis de Tocqueville came to America in 1826 to study its new citizens, he was amazed at their restlessness—moving an average of once every five years—an average that still holds true today. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. ... Read More

The exhibition “Construct/Destruct” by artist Steve Banks is on display through April 30, 2021 at the Beréskin Gallery & Art Academy in Bettendorf. Featuring large-scale mixed media works or “painted constructions” as well as smaller ceramic sculptures, the artist weaves together architectural, industrial, and road trip images in an homage to our past – what once was, and what has been repurposed. Examining the leaning, tilting towers of his ceramic works or carefully inspecting the layered images on his paintings, the viewer is forced to examine the transient nature of our current... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. In the Western Cemetery in Orion, Illinois, just south of here, there is a tombstone with the names of Jessie Colton and Bert Richardson. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Listen ... Read More

This episode of Love Girls: The Podcast features teen actress Maya J. Pinson and Kevin Goff, the great grandnephew of Hollywood’s first black artist to win an Oscar, actress Hattie McDaniel. Other Episodes April 30, 2024 It’s Love Girls, Live from the Figge Art Museum This podcast is hosted by organization founder, Jasmine Babers,... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. The Mississippi is one of those rivers that takes on all comers. Children are easy marks. Just standing them along the shore with a stick to wrinkle the water is all it takes. Fishermen are easy, too. All fishing poles have hooks at both ends, and who pulls in whom is an open question. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition ... Read More