This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. “Timing is everything,” as Reverend James L. Delk could tell you after a summer of revival meetings in the city of Rock Island in 1919. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Listen ... Read More

Other Episodes June 23, 2023 Scribble: The Finale Listen · 29:02 June... Read More

Don Wooten and a cavalcade of guests kill an hour in a very unceremonious way. Other Episodes April 27, 2024 Saturday Morning Live! Carrying on one of the most venerable traditions in local broadcasting history, Kai Swanson carries on the carrying on Don Wooten carried on with a cavalcade of carriers on. Carry on. ... Read More

Other Episodes April 27, 2024 River Action Fish and Fire 2024 Listen · 4:00 ... Read More

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

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Before Billy Sunday moved into the big time as the evangelist to America’s great urban centers, he practiced his techniques and his messages for ten years among the small Iowa and Illinois towns of the corn belt. One of the last of these small-town crusades came in 1905, in Aledo, Illinois, a few miles south of here. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 ... Read More

On Midwest Week, how a local foundation is helping Quad Cities cultural organizations get through the pandemic. Herb Trix’s guest this week is Alma Gaul, features writer for the Quad City Times and Dispatch-Argus. You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK on at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered. Other Episodes December 30, 2022 Ballot Counting Problems in... Read More

Nathan Kalmoe, Associate Professor of Political Communication at LSU, talks about his recent book With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War and its very relevant applications to the current political landscape. He also challenges some long-held myths about the war and especially Lincoln’s reelection in 1864. Other Episodes May 2, 2024 ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Had a Rock Island County man not lost his temper back in 1895, the American cattle industry would have taken a different turn. Meet Herman H. Haaff, a farmer who took the bull by the horns. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. I see that the starving artists are back at the Holiday Inn again for their annual sale, room 211. What would those artists do without rivers? Any painting over $19.95 is bound to have a stream or a rivulet winding through it, perhaps even the sweet Afton flowing gently. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition ... Read More