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Pardon Our Dust...

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:29:15 GMT

In case you haven't noticed, we're launching our "New Year, New You" promotion today, where you can win a $50 gift certificate to participating businesses - we hope to have the blog posts separated out this afternoon.

Question: What's the Best Restaurant in the Quad-Cities that I Haven't Eaten at?

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:53:43 GMT

Name them, I'll tell you if I've been there or not. My wife and I are in a restaurant rut and we need to break out.

Hello? Anybody out there?

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:13:50 GMT

More planets orbiting other stars:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/first-direct-im.html

The Network Issue Forum: Moline Public Library

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:18:28 GMT

The Network, (the organization formerly known as YPN) is having a discussion forum tonight about the future of the Moline Public Library building. Sounds interesting, and admission is free. From their website:

Keeping with our brand promise, The Network has established an Advocacy Committee to develop programming that will capture the “voice” of area young professionals and make it heard around issues, policies, and initiatives that impact the region’s ability to attract, retain, and engage young talent. Beginning on November 12th, The Network's Advocacy Committee will host a series of open forums called Issue Forums to discuss those issues that matter to YPs with the goal to educate YPs and generate the YP voice to be shared with regional leaders.

Our first Issue Forum will focus on the best use of the Carnegie Building in downtown Moline, currently home to the Moline Public Library. Young Professionals are invited to join their peers to learn more about this building, the City of Moline's plan, and engage in a discussion around possible uses for the historic building.

Date: Wednesday November 12, 2008
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: Carnegie Building (Downtown Moline Library)
504 17th Street, Moline

Blog posts from local businesses

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:45:51 GMT

To our users: businesses who have paid for directory listings in our Wedding and Health marketplaces are more than welcome to add their voices to the mix. We are working on a way of separating different blog entry types, but in the meantime all blog posts run together.

Businesses who do not participate in our directory program will have their posts removed.

Comments on qctimes.com

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:05:50 GMT

Yes, we know they've been down most of the morning. Post-election traffic on our hosting provider has led to connection timeouts on our commenting engine.

The power should come back on at 2pm. Our apologies for the time off.

Get School Closing Alerts on your phone

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:36:25 GMT

Non-election news from the web dude. We launched a new text messaging service today for QC Area School alerts:

Quad Cities School Closing Alerts

You can select multiple schools or in some cases district-wide alerts. Pretty darn cool, if you ask me - but I'm biased.

And in case you missed it, we have text alerts for Quad Cities high school football scores.

What will we think of next?

Actually, what types of information would you like to see tracked like this? Let me know in the comments.

Voted @ 7 AM

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:50:59 GMT

The wife and I hit the polls at 7AM this morning and found a line out the door at the Duck Creek Lodge polling place. One of our neighbors is a poll worker, and volunteered this tidbit:

Out of 2000 registered voters, over 700 had voted early or absentee. And the line was out the door at 7AM (only slightly shorter when we left).