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On Midwest Week, was the first NFL game really played in the Quad Cities ? Other Episodes December 30, 2022 Ballot Counting Problems in Scott County On Midwest Week, some of the numbers from the November election in Scott County still don't add up, but the counting is over. Listen ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Most of us first learn about Chicago from a poem in tenth grade. “Hog Butcher for the World,” the poem shouts, “Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads…Stormy, husky, brawling…” Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. One of the first things we learn about America in grade school is that we are a melting pot. “Here,” a French observer of the new America wrote just after the Revolution, “individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men.” The pot in “melting pot” came from a 19th century play in which immigrants in their native costumes came on stage, passed behind a huge foundry cauldron for melting iron, and emerged on the other side dressed in blue coveralls carrying lunch buckets, and, of course, all speaking English. ... Read More

On this episode of LGM – Jasmine takes the opportunity to interview Mikhayla for a get to know you series! Mikhayla answers the questions from you, the listeners, about How About HOPE, what it is like to be Miss Iowa, and what it feels like to land her first “big girl” job post-graduation. Other Episodes March 24, 2024 Inspiring Tales of Resilience:... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Last January the seed catalogs arrived as usual amid the cold winds and snows. I was lost in a spectacular imaginary garden composed from the catalog illustrations until I came to “new this year” and discovered the “grow your own morel mushroom kit” for $19.95. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Americans have always been fond stories reminding us of “how the West was won.” A young boy from LeClaire, Iowa, just upstream from Rock Island, could tell you, instead, how the west was lost. He played a role in that story. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. It is hard to believe that this November, after forty-nine years of teaching English literature at Augustana College in Rock Island, Dr. Dorothy Parkander will retire. She will be seventy-one. Generations of English majors have absorbed her lectures on Chaucer, Milton, Donne, and Austen, but the must-take course for business major and pre-med alike has been World Literature and its centerpiece, Homer’s Odyssey. Twice a year, Dorothy has taken forty or fifty students from farms in Iowa, small Illinois towns or Chicago suburbs, and launched them from the... Read More

Other Episodes April 25, 2024 The Rising Costs and Policy Changes: Why Arrowhead Ranch Had to Close In this episode, we delve into the closure of Arrowhead Ranch, a long-standing residential facility for troubled youth in Illinois. Dr. Luis Moreno, the executive director, provides a comprehensive... ... Read More