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Former President Donald Trump expanded his lead in Iowa with less than five weeks left until the 2024 Republican caucuses, with more than half of likely GOP caucusgoers naming him as their first choice candidate in the Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll published Monday.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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12/12/23
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Scott County Democrats will caucus for everything but a presidential pick at a single location Jan. 15: Davenport North High School, 626 W. 53rd St., Davenport.
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12/12/23
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The Republican Party of Iowa has announced precinct locations for the 2024 Republican presidential caucuses.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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12/12/23
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The Iowa Youth Straw Poll will take place across the state on Tuesday, Jan. 9, less than one week before Iowans participate in the Iowa presidential caucuses.
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12/12/23
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Davenport’s downtown two-way street conversion in 2025 will bring traffic light changes affecting Scott County’s administration building, courthouse and jail.
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12/12/23
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Scott County expects a $1.4 million operating deficit in the first fiscal year of turning Medic countywide ambulance service from a nonprofit to a countywide department.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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12/12/23
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In a courtroom with family, friends, and four Eldridge elected officials, former Eldridge city clerk was sentenced to a $10,000 fine, 200 hours of community service, two years of probation and no jail time for taking Eldridge taxpayer funds.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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12/12/23
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The Scott County Library has a 25-year lease through 2050 to remain at the Eldridge headquarters owned by the city of Eldridge.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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12/19/23
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Princeton’s next council will have to decide the fate of $50,000 in taxpayer funds already earmarked for a new trail, and perhaps another $42,500 in privately raised funds held by the Princeton Recreational Trails nonprofit.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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12/19/23
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Supervisors of Kossuth County have approved new restrictions for carbon dioxide pipelines that would require them to be placed certain distances away from cities, houses and other facilities.
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Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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12/20/23
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The Iowa House Republican caucus outlined their priorities heading into the 2024 Legislative Session.
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12/20/23
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Creating a Long Grove utility board will require more study, some residents willing to serve, and referendum vote.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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12/20/23
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Eldridge electric and water utility board members raised water rates 10 percent, effective Feb. 1, to cover “additional expenses necessary for infrastructure repairs,” according to the board’s Dec. 9 agenda.
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12/20/23
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Eldridge city council members are scheduled to vote publicly Jan. 2 on a retirement deal offered to police chief Joe Sisler.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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12/26/23
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Scott County supervisors took a first step towards blocking an asphalt plant and concrete recycling yard in Mount Joy that some neighbors say is too close to the airport.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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12/26/23
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Scott County supervisors saluted MEDIC ambulance director Linda Fredericksen, who retired after 28 years, including 19 as director.
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12/26/23
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A U.S. District Court judge heard oral arguments Friday about whether to stop enforcement of measures in an Iowa education law that ban certain books with sexual content from K-12 school libraries.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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12/27/23
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The Iowa Departments of Education and Health and Human Services notified the U.S. Department of Agriculture that Iowa will not participate in a program that provides additional food assistance for children during the summer, the state announced Friday.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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12/27/23
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With little discussion, Scott County Supervisors on Dec. 19 renewed the county’s annual agreement to follow the Iowa Department of Natural Resources regulation for confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOS.
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12/27/23
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Supervisors approved a final plat for a 2.01 acre retail development on the southwest corner of U.S. 61 and 110th Avenue, just west of Interstate 280.
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12/27/23
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