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MCCARTNEY AMAZES Q-C MOLINE Study results stump council Question sample size of fair housing survey GEROLD SHELTON [email protected]

MOLINE — Council members were upset over the results of a fair housing study, questioning if the sample size representing the city was sufficient to draw the conclusions found. Jeremy Gray of Mosaic Com- munity Planning, presented the results of the Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. Moline, Rock Island and Davenport were part of the study, which is required to be conducted by law. Andy Abeyta / [email protected] One survey question asked Rock music legend Sir Paul McCartney makes his entrance onto the stage to start his show at the TaxSlayer Center in Moline, Tuesday. McCartney if housing discrimination is made his fi rst visit to the Quad-Cities as a part of the Freshen Up Tour. an issue here. According to the results, 36% said yes, 46% said maybe and 18% said they do not know. Moline was the only city to have no respondents answer no. Alderman Mike Wendt asked what percentage of respondents were from Moline. Gray said more than 200 total residents engaged in the process, and that he would get specifics to ‘All my lovin’ the council. Ald. Kevin Schoonmaker said it down along River Drive east to is then possible maybe three Mo- McCartney thrills 15th Street and the parking lot line residents answered the survey. east of the Radisson, snaking Gray said “sure.” Quad-Cities with back to the ramp leading to Ar- Ald. Sonia Berg asked where senal Island. And, on the other the studies were conducted. She classic, new songs side, along River Drive west to asked if there was a sign in sheet 12th Street, then back into the there, and if the study was geared ALMA GAUL arena parking lot. only toward the residents living [email protected] A security guard observed that in the Floreciente community. the weather — not too hot, not Community Development Man- With the opening riff of “Hard too cold and finally not raining ager K.J. Whitley said one was Day’s Night” at about 8:15 p.m. — helped keep people in a good held at the Esperanza Center in Tuesday, Paul McCartney had his mood. Moline, the Martin Luther King sold out audience of about 11,000 Who were all these people? Jr. Center in Rock Island and a on its feet and singing along, the They were people such as location in Davenport. She said start of a rollicking good time at Linda Alexander, of Clinton, and the public was invited to attend, Moline’s Taxslayer Center that her cousin Barb Wingler, of Rock but the majority of the residents was expected to last until nearly Island, who wore T-shirts saying, in attendance were indeed from midnight. “”I’ve seen the Beatles Live on the Floreciente neighborhood. As video and spectacular light- MEG MCLAUGHLIN/[email protected] Stage and I’m Still Around to An interpreter was also on hand ing played around him, McCart- Norah Farrell, 8, of Cedar Rapids, holds up her handmade sign as she Brag About It.” The lucky pair for that meeting. ney performed a couple of songs sits on her dad, Ryan’s, shoulders as they and thousands of others wait had tickets to the 1965 concert at Another part of the study from his latest album, “Egypt Chicago’s Comisky Park, which, shows an area of the city with the in line before Paul McCartney perform during the 2019 Freshen Up Tour Station,” then returned to more as they recalled, cost $5 and were highest proficiency for grades familiar and beloved territory at the TaxSlayer Center Tuesday in Moline. for general admission seating. among students, provided by with “All My Lovin’” and “Got “Everybody screamed,” Wing- HUD, also showed an area be- to Get You Into My Life.” “Ladies and gents, there’s four then you have a pretty good idea ler said. “Except the guys. They hind the Walmart, the Clover- Doors to the center opened at gates, no queues, straight up the of how the lines waiting to get just stood up and made fun of leaf trailer park area, in Moline 6:30 p.m., and it took a full hour- ramp please.” into the Taxslayer looked from everybody who screamed.” as having some of the highest and-a-half to get everyone inside, As for the crowds, if you’ve the doors. proficiency tests among stu- with security personnel and tour ever watched the start of the People were lined up politely, dents. Gray said it was based on employees with British accents Quad-City Times Bix 7, with as though by some invisible rope, See MCCARTNEY, Page A2 advising people of where to go for thousands of runners weaving in both directions for as far as the the shortest wait. and bobbing up Brady Street hill, eye could see. The line stretched • QCOnline.com: Concert review. See STUDY, Page A2

CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT Biden: Trump dismantling democracy

BILL LUKITSCH field of candidates seeking to and tearing into Biden with in- [email protected] defeat Trump in 2020, called sults of his own. The back-and- the president a threat to the forth offered a possible preview Former Vice President Joe nation, attacking his character, of what a 2020 presidential race Biden continued his tour of policies and Twitter habits. He might look like if Biden becomes southeastern Iowa Tuesday in also accused Trump of setting the Democratic Party’s nominee. Davenport with a speech that a “standard of crude language Meandering between one-lin- focused largely on criticizing and embarrassing behavior” and ers and seriousness, the former President Donald Trump and “tearing down the guardrails” of vice president earned applause celebrating the achievements of democracy. lines, including for his promises the Obama administration. As Biden was campaigning Biden, the presumed frontrun- on the eastern side of the state, John Schultz, Quad-City Times ner in the crowded Democratic Trump was also visiting the state See BIDEN, Page A2 Former Vice President Joe Biden makes a campaign stop, Tuesday at the • INSIDE: Trump, Biden trade barbs amid dueling Iowa campaign visits. PAGE A2 Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport.

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