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Question of the day: Do you think Sarah Palin is planning a run for president?
Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale at 1:16PM CST on September 1, 2010
Do you think Sarah Palin’s September visit to Iowa is a prelude to a run for president in 2012?

Get your news your way
Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale at 12:59PM CST on August 30, 2010
I’d like to thank everyone for your suggestions about what you’d like to see from Quadsville.

Some of the ideas Online Director Tim D’Avis and I are looking into implementing are adding a section where you can see recent blog comments, having a real-time private chat function and allowing users to embed videos within blogs.

A redesign of the site is in the works that will put more focus on community blogs and photos, and any other changes to the site will happen when the redesign is launched. I don’t have a date yet for when you can expect the new look, but I’m pretty excited about it.

Another project I’ll be starting soon is creating a poll to see how you all would like to get news updates on Facebook and Twitter. Some of the questions I’ll ask will be about what kind of news you want and how often you want it.

My hunch is that the answers will vary greatly depending on whether Twitter or Facebook users are answering the poll since people use the two networks differently.

I find Facebook users tend to get annoyed if their news feed is clogged up by too many updates, whereas Twitter users post multiple times a day, using it as a sort of instant messaging system the whole world can see.

And speaking of giving you updates via social media, how many of you would be interested in a news feed through the neighborhood section on Quadsville of up to date information about what is going on in your town from events, to crime news, to stories of people doing good.

The feed would be like a mini daily newspaper on your neighborhood. For example if you lived in the Village of East Davenport, you could go to that neighborhood’s page on Quadsville and see links to photos of today’s Antique Tractor Show, a review of The Curtainbox Theatre Company’s production of Margaret Edson’s “Wit,” at the Village Theatre, and keep up on the fate of the historic Peter C. Bruchmann House on Jersey Ridge Road.


Question of the day: How old is your dictionary?
Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale at 12:46PM CST on August 30, 2010
The Oxford English Dictionary, which has been in print for more than a century, may be available only online in the future. You can read the story here. But today's question asks when was the last time you bought a dictionary.


Weekend poll: how would you rate the tailgating (alcohol consumption) situation in Iowa City on a football Saturday?
Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale at 4:44PM CST on August 27, 2010
The University of Iowa recently adopted tougher rules regarding tailgating on campus for the upcoming football season. Based on your knowledge, how would you rate the tailgating (alcohol consumption) situation in Iowa City on a football Saturday?


Question of the day: Do you prefer frigid days or sauna-like summer days?
Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale at 11:53AM CST on August 26, 2010
When it come to the weather, Midwesterners are never satisfied. It’s too hot and humid in the summer and too cold and windy in the winter which begs the question: Do you prefer frigid days of minus 20 degrees (with windchill) or sauna-like summer days of 115 degrees (with the heat index)?


Question of the day: Do you think the United States is doing enough to help Pakistan recover from floods?
Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale at 2:00PM CST on August 25, 2010
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A Quad-City doctor has raised $25,000 for flood relief in Pakistan. You can read the story here. The United States is providing $150 million in aid and supplies to the devastated country. Do you think that's enough?


Question of the day: Egg-cuse me?
Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale at 12:24PM CST on August 24, 2010
You’ve probably heard the recent news involving two Iowa farms that have recalled more than half a billion potentially tainted eggs after being linked to more than 1,000 reported cases of salmonella poisoning.

Are you altering your egg-eating habits?


Question of the day: Would you ever vote for Blago?
Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale at 3:17PM CST on August 23, 2010
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich now says he won’t rule out another run at political office, that is, if federal prosecutors fail to convict him at a second trial. Would you ever vote for Blago?

Weekend poll: Which band are you looking forward to hearing at River Roots Live?
Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale at 4:22PM CST on August 20, 2010
Question of the day: Would you book a nonstop flight to Las Vegas on Allegiant Air?
Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale at 1:07PM CST on August 19, 2010
Allegiant Air will begin operations at the Quad-City International Airport near Moline in October and offer nonstop flights to Las Vegas. You can read the full story here. AirTran previously offered nonstop flights to the gambling destination, but it stopped in 2008. Would you book a nonstop flight to Las Vegas on Allegiant Air?


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