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Rock Island Argus/Moline County Board, Resulting in Inaction on Beyond the Unfolding of Daily Events 2 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 862 • August 7 - 20, 2014 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com With a 90% post-graduation placement rate, we help young alumni start out strong and give our state the professionals we need. #TheUforIOWA River Cities WK2.indd 1 7/30/14 12:56 PM Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 862 • August 7 - 20, 2014 3 GUEST COMMENTARY by Jeff Ignatius [email protected] Davenport’s Planned News Site: A Bold, Unworkable Idea, Repackaged PR, or ... ? ow would the City of Davenport easily adaptable material that would “Our Story” We need to ... tell our story from the city’s have covered the recent vetoes warmly present Davenport. side.” Hby Mayor Bill Gluba of the Dock But this idea was also pitched by city and the “Truth” “We have a positive message,” development plan and the St. Ambrose staff quoted in the article as “bold” and a The Fiscal Year 2015 Davenport Alderman Ray Ambrose said. “We’ve University rezoning request for a new “deep dive,” words that suggest ambition budget vaguely mentioned “a new always struggled to get that message out.” stadium? And how would it have covered beyond marketing. As Davenport communications initiative, Open “You lose too much when you allow Gluba’s proposal to bring illegal immi- Business Development Manager (and Davenport,” with funding for several somebody else to tell your story,” Brecht grants to Davenport, which was – to put former daily-newspaper reporter) Tory new positions: a part-time Web designer, said. it mildly – poorly received by the city Brecht said: “As far as we can tell, no U.S. three part-time “content providers,” and a And on the other hand: council? city has embarked on this effort.” “student reporter” – accounting for 2.75 “The city ends up having to tell its bad These were the questions that came to The news site is supposed to be full-time equivalents. news, anyway,” Brecht said. “Why not be mind with the revelation by the Quad- launched in the next few months, and of Ickes’ article noted the hiring of out front?” City Times’ Barb Ickes (on the same day course it’s impossible to pass judgment on another newspaper reporter – the Quad- “You’ll see the truth being told,” Malin as the vetoes) that the Fiscal Year 2015 it without actually seeing the thing. City Times’ Kurt Allemeier – and fleshed said. city budget includes $178,000 for what Yet the twin aims of the initiative seem out the idea for the public. (Both Brecht Here you begin to see the disconnect she described as “a news-based Web site fundamentally incompatible, and it’s hard and Allemeier covered Davenport city of this undertaking – between the stated ... [to] shine new light on positive and to envision how the nobler of these goals government.) The comments of various goal of marketing (“tell our story”) and negative city happenings.” can be accomplished given the inherent city employees and city-council members the promise of journalism (“the truth”). It’s clear that the site is an attempt to, at lack of independence in a city-run “news” were instructive – and, perhaps inevitably, Sometimes those things align; often, they least in part, bypass the traditional news operation. contradictory. butt heads. media and speak directly to constituents And that’s why I return to the Dock, On the one hand: The concept is still under development, about good things city government is the St. Ambrose stadium, and the Gluba “We do stuff all the time – good stuff, and information from the city remains doing and positive developments in immigration proposal. These were the great stuff, life-changing stuff – that never skeletal. A PowerPoint dated July 31 Davenport – without that pesky “other city’s big stories last month, and one can’t sees light of day,” said City Administrator says the initiative is “expected to share side” of the story. And, given our local envision a Davenport news site ignoring Craig Malin. “We’re a 24/7 shop with 800 information as events are unfolding” television stations’ tendency to air them while retaining its credibility. But employees.” and that “messages must be clear unsourced and vaguely sourced stories, I can’t for the life of me figure out how it “A lot of times, the good-feeling stories and pro-active.” Under the heading one might infer that another motivation would have covered them. don’t sell so much,” said Alderman Bill is giving those broadcast news operations Edmond. “We need to tell them ourselves. Continued On Page 15 The sandwiches of summer...a cool choice. We start with our famous bread — baked daily in The Hobo Bakery — then heap on the sliced-to-order meats and cheeses, and the freshest veggies. So irresistibly cool on a hot summer day. App Delivery Facebook MOBILE Rewards Twitter Mobile Order at Like us for Text HOBO Follow us We accept: ordering good2goqc.com great offers to 81018 @HungryHobo11 4 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 862 • August 7 - 20, 2014 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com ILLINOIS POLITICS by Rich Miller CapitolFax.com Quinn Campaign Spitting in the Wind overnor Pat Quinn’s new TV ad is 60 as $5 million on the minimum-wage project seconds of one positive message after to drive otherwise unmotivated “base” voters Ganother. to the polls. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin’s “Pat Quinn sees problems, takes action, campaign is reportedly in full agreement, and gets the job done,” the ad claims. “Now, and pressure from both Durbin and Quinn Illinois is making a comeback,” it continues. has forced the Chicago City Council to But the spot is being slammed by longtime delay a vote on its own $13-minimum-wage campaign insiders in both parties as “spitting ordinance. The cold calculation was that in the wind.” a $13-per-hour ordinance For instance, a Paul Simon passed in September would Public Policy Institute poll Turnout-spike undermine the Democrats’ in June found that a mere 30 projections $10-per-hour efforts in the percent of Illinoisans thought fall campaign. the state was on the right track, are just smart On the other side of PLAYER’S CHOICE GIVEAWAY! while a 60-percent majority the fence, Bruce Rauner’s thought Illinois was on the politics by Rauner campaign has calculated a Saturday, August 9, 16, 23 & 30 wrong track. voter-turnout increase of And an infamous poll taken and dangerous more than 300,000 just to Receive ONE free daily entry by Gallup in April found that optimism by be on the safe side. After Earn additional entries based on play 50 percent of Illinoisans would Rauner’s unexpectedly move to a different state if Quinn. narrow GOP primary win DEPOSIT ENTRIES EACH DRAWING DAY FROM 4:00PM - 7:55PM • DRAWING TIME 8:00PM given the chance. We were first (despite internal Rauner polls AMAZING PRIZES INCLUDE: Tool kit may showing the candidate with greater than a di er from in the country on that response, according • Designer Coach® purse image shown. to Gallup. Just 25 percent of Minnesotans, by 20-point lead), the Republicans want to be • DeWALT® 4-tool • Dyson® DC50 vacuum combo kit contrast, felt the same way. extra sure that they plan for every possible • Sony® 40” LED HDTV In other words, a positive TV ad campaign contingency. • $500 CASH! is not very likely to change many minds. Way To some Democrats, that Rauner too many people simply hate the way things projection validates their theory of a turnout are going here. spike. They believe that early voting, same- Sunday Slot TournEvent Instead, Democratic critics have been day registration, and other new “tools” will SUNDAY arguing behind the scenes to abandon assist them in reaching their goal. POINT WINUPTO positivity in the very near future and launch To others, it’s just smart politics by Rauner MULTIPLIER IN IMAGE FREE PLAY a full-on, brutal assault against Bruce and dangerous optimism by Quinn. In other August 10 • 10am-6pm 10am-6pm on August 10 and 24 Rauner as soon as possible. And quite a few words, if the spike happens, Rauner will have 3X POINTS 30 WINNERS EACH WEEK! experienced Republican operatives were prepared himself. If it doesn’t happen, Quinn ALL SLOTS. ALL VIDEO POKER. Each session winner receives $10 IMAGE FREE Play. scratching their heads at the ad, saying they is likely toast. NO LIMIT! Receive one free entry. highly doubted it would move any numbers At least in public, however, Rauner is Earn up to 3 additional entries based on play. at all. making some pretty darned inflated claims The Quinn campaign obviously tested that himself. He reportedly told a group of initial message with focus groups and polling. African-American small businessmen last SATISFY YOUR WINNING APPETITE So, hey, maybe they’re right. But when’s the week that he will get 28 percent of the black with the best food at the best prices. last time you heard someone say they were vote in Chicago – something that hasn’t been proud to live in this state or that things were done there in a very long time. FRIDAY & SATURDAY 11am-10pm really starting to turn around? But he’s certainly trying hard. ABC 7’s Meanwhile, the Quinn folks are reportedly Charles Thomas reported last week that hoping to drive up turnout by more Rauner committed at that same meeting to Surf ‘N’ than 200,000 votes with the nonbinding deposit $1 million of his personal fortune $ 99 minimum-wage referendum this fall, which into a Chicago credit union to be used for Turf 14 asks voters if they support a $10-per-hour small-business loans.
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