Here are the 2009 November Nine: James Akenhead, Jeff Shulman, Phil Ivey, Antoine Saout, Darvin Moon, Joe Cada, Steven Begleiter, Kevin Schaffel and Eric Buchman. One of them will be $8.5 million richer sometime early Tuesday morning! (Photo by IMPDI for 2009 WSOP) Ol’ LuckyDog still ...

Yesterday our wonderful congressman Phil Hare voted to extend unemployment benefits and the first time homebuyer’s tax credit of $8000 to April 30, 2010. The income caps for the homebuyer exemption was raised to $125K for individuals and $225K for married couples—the real ...

Team Obama member Nancy Pelosi continues to bully opponents within her own party that disagree with voting for her version of Obamacare. Pelosi is determined to push her own personal agenda over the tops of concerns of party legislators that live in and represents   voting regions that do not ...

Yesterday twelve American soldiers lost their lives and 31 more were injured. In times of war that doesn’t seem like a high number but this time it happened at Fort Hood, Texas, and the alleged shooter is also an American soldier. This action caused friends and family of those on the base some ...

Here are all the results, even for uncontested races. The percentages are of those people correctly casting votes, and the undervotes are those people who did not select a candidate for the position. The number of voters who filled out ballots for each race is listed as well. My amateur analysis of ...

A few years back Jeff Foxworthy was striking comedy gold by alerting people to the warning signs that they may be a redneck. Two of my favorites: You may be a redneck if you have more than one major appliance on your front porch. You may be a redneck if your house is mobile but your truck isn't. These ...

So, a while back I wrote a few posts that have been getting some attention back in the ol' fair Quad-Cities.The first was about a "sighting" I had whilst living in the City of Davenport. The second was that the person I saw "abducted" was someone shown on the Web site ZWatch.org.Sorry for the three ...

Bad news, Quad Cities. It appears that my bed has turned evil. Regular readers of my column may have noticed that I was "on vacation" last week. Truth be told, I was right here in my apartment, paralyzed by an overwhelming fear of my bedroom furnishings.

It all started two weeks ago when -- wait, scratch

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First Ward Alderman Terry Brooks has delineated an area west of 15th Street to 12th Street and South of 9th Avenue  to 18th Avenue as a "war zone. Apparently it is news to many of the residents who don't read The Argus or Quad City Times newspapers. A drive through the neighborhood on August 20 ...