This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. If you are old enough, you may remember the good old days when the 4 th of July was still called “The Glorious Fourth”—those days when it was still possible to set off rockets and cherry bombs and make some real noise. Sparklers and cones that give off six seconds of green smoke are hardly glorious. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. What follows is a tale of two cities: London, England, and Moline, Illinois. Each city has its own version of the tale. Only this last paragraph is the same: On a terrace in Moline’s Riverside Cemetery, high in the bluffs above Moline, in Lot No. 1,235, under an epitaph that reads “take ye heed, watch and pray, for ye know not when the time is,” lies Captain Francis Jeffrey Dickens, an officer in the Canadian Mounted Police and the third son of the English novelist, Charles Dickens. Other Episodes ... Read More

Kira Fox and Brianna Haley discuss the truth about historically black colleges, writing, filmaking and finding the courage to pursue your dreams with former LGM writer, Jasmine McCaskill. Other Episodes April 30, 2024 It’s Love Girls, Live from the Figge Art Museum This podcast is hosted by organization founder, Jasmine Babers, with special... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. One of the most enduring of American characters is the tinkerer, that small-time amateur inventor who turns bits of junk into strange but often workable machines that fly or kill mice or slice bread. Most remain unknown except to very patient spouses, but a few, like the Wright brothers, tinker their way into history. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Between 1933 and 1939, the entire Upper Mississippi from St. Louis to St. Paul changed personalities, courtesy of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Until 1933, the Mississippi was a wild river, coming and going as it pleased, creating islands and washing them away, teasing steamboats. In that year a dam and two locks were completed between Davenport and Rock Island—a massive structure looking like it was fresh off a solidarity poster. Other Episodes ... 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

Libby Meyer, Federal Reporter for Iowa Starting Line, talks about the contested Iowa 2nd congressional district race and the autopsy report on the 2020 Iowa caucuses, two major stories bookending a strange and unpredictable year in Iowa politics. Other Episodes May 2, 2024 War for the Soul of American Christianity Tim Alberta discusses his... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. The City of Rock Island might well have become the chair capitol of the world, had it not been for an actress named Lilian Lewis. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Listen ... Read More