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Other Episodes May 3, 2024 The Impact of Iowa's Budget Increase: A Closer Look In this episode, we discuss the recently passed budget and new income tax plan in the Iowa Legislature. Listen · 28:13 ... Read More

On Midwest Week, Western Illinois University chooses a new president and works to boost enrollment. Herb Trix’s guest is Rich Egger, news director for Tri-States Public Radio in Macomb. You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered. Other Episodes December 30, 2022 Ballot Counting Problems in Scott County ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. After walking fifteen hundred miles through woods and forests, up hills and across streams, out over endless prairies, a man is entitled to take a rest under a tree and dream. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. ... Read More

Michael Lind talks about his latest book, The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Managerial Elite. He shows how the decline of trade unions, churches and grassroots political parties disempowered the working class and offers ideas on how Western democracies can include working class majorities in politics, the economy and culture to overcome class warfare. Other Episodes May 2, 2024 ... Read More

The Midwest Writing Center is offering an opportunity to have a locally affiliated poet or writer hand craft a poem for someone in your life. Available through February 28, 2021, Bespoke Poems QC has a “pay what you want” policy, although the recommended minimum is $20 and tips are appreciated. Simply fill out an on-line information form with details about the person(s) that you are commissioning a poem for, and the tailor-made poem will be sent in either digital form or via traditional mail service back to you. For those wishing to have a poem created by Valentine’s Day, the deadline for... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. St. Matthew may have known his lilies of the field when he advised us to be like them and “take no thought for the morrow,” but he had almost certainly never tried out that wisdom in the pilot house of a Mississippi River steamboat. He would have been catfish bait. Even an apprentice cub knew enough to steer ahead—way, way ahead. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Gambling was present on most passenger boats on the Upper Mississippi River, but it never reached the Hollywood proportions of riverboat gambling on the Lower Mississippi, where plantations, horses, and women were won and lost on the turn of a card. Upper Mississippi gamblers were content if they made two or three hundred dollars a week. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. The best of the steamboat captains on the Upper Mississippi River became legends in their own lifetimes for their daring and their skill. Above them all stood William F. Davidson, the only captain to be accorded the honorary rank of Commodore by fellow rivermen. The Commodore was head of the Davidson Line, the largest and most successful line of packet boats on the river. Proud and headstrong, the Commodore made sure both his boats and his crews were shipshape. The Davidson Line ran on time and went where it said it would go. ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes of those fancy cloth-napkin restaurants you go to for anniversaries? If you decided it’s best not to ask, this story is not for you. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. ... Read More