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Scott County building inspectors will resume building permitting and inspections in Princeton.
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9/4/24
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A new Kwik Star and other development prompted supervisors to ban engine braking on a stretch of U.S. 61 from I-280 west to the Muscatine County line.
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9/4/24
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Iowa Democratic lawmakers released a report Thursday showing there has been a reduction of more than 400 staff at Iowa’s Area Education Agencies for this school year in the wake of a new law making changes to the system of agencies.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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9/4/24
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Scott County supervisors are preparing for Bettendorf and LeClaire growth to bring even more traffic to the gravel Indiana Avenue.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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9/3/24
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Eldridge council members want to hire a finance manager to succeed the city’s retiring clerk, and designate a deputy clerk to take on the city’s increasing fiscal duties.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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9/3/24
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The Eldridge utility board is negotiating an 11.8 percent megawatt rate increase with Compass, a firm that manages the utility’s electric purchase.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/28/24
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Early voting requests are being accepted this week by the Scott County auditor.
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8/28/24
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Sixteen states, including Iowa, filed a suit in federal court Aug. 23 to block the Biden administration’s program that protects long-term undocumented people married to U.S. citizens from deportation and grants them a pathway to citizenship.
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Ariana Figueroa, States News Service
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8/28/24
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Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Monday that Ryan Mulhall will serve as executive director for the Iowa Communications Network beginning Aug. 30.
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8/28/24
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A coalition of community groups has invited candidates for forums Sept. 21 for Scott County sheriff and auditor candidates, and Oct. 12 for Iowa first district congressional candidates, and Scott County board of supervisors.
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8/28/24
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Long Grove city government will be showing up on Facebook more often after the council approved a social media policy intended to increase posts.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/21/24
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A coalition of community groups has invited candidates for forums Sept. 21 for Scott County sheriff and auditor candidates, and Oct. 12 for Iowa first district congressional candidates, and Scott County board of supervisors.
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8/21/24
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U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks spoke in favor of carbon dioxide pipelines as a way to aid Iowa’s ethanol production industry with an environmentally conscious impact.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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8/21/24
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The utility board may consider adding an administrative fee to customers who prefer billing by mail instead of online.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/21/24
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Eldridge council members authorized $89,500 in Shive Hattery engineering work to improve about 2.2 miles of South First Street from North Scott High School to the city limits.
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8/21/24
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Details behind the city of Eldridge’s firing and arrest of former utility employees emerged in a July 24 administrative law hearing that denied unemployment benefits to fired utility clerk Jody Coffman.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/20/24
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Iowa Republican Party Chairman Jeff Kaufmann has given hundreds of speeches in his lifetime, but none were more important than the presidential nomination speech he gave Aug. 5 at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
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Tim Evans, NSP Reporter
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8/20/24
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Eldridge council members on Monday voted 4-1 to put a traffic light at LeClaire Road and Fourth Avenue, not the roundabout recommended by the city administrator, public works directors and engineer.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/20/24
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Libertarian candidate for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District Nicholas Gluba vowed to fight eminent domain and U.S. foreign interventions, speaking Saturday at the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair.
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8/14/24
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Adam Peters of Davenport is beyond pumped to attend his first Democratic National Convention, as an Iowa delegate, starting Aug. 19 in Chicago.
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Jonathan Turner, NSP Reporter
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8/13/24
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