News & Features
CR PrideFest showcases local performers at expanded event Saturday
CEDAR RAPIDS – With a show that once again focuses mostly on showcasing familiar names from eastern Iowa, CR Pride holds its annual festival Saturday with an anticipated crowd of more than 20,000. A...
TreeoNine Fest in East Moline offers cannabis culture and reggae-seasoned multi-genre music
The TreeoNine fest happens tonight and Saturday in East Moline and showcases cannabis culture, plus multi-genre musical artists.
Opinion
About the missing $30,000: why I had to write it
I wrote one of the hardest stories I’ve ever had to write, earlier this week. It was a piece about $30,000 in donations to a revered LGBTQ+ Pride organization that is “unaccounted for.” I wrote it...
Victims of private violence will suffer the most for Will Smith’s public slap of Chris Rock
Thanks to Will Smith’s super-public slap of Chris Rock, I’m willing to bet that thousands more face slaps, punches, hits and kicks are taking place in private these last few days.
The Project Pages
Young adults, injection drugs are key factors behind Hep C spike
The rate of new Hepatitis C infections reported in 2018 was four times higher than in 2009, reports the Centers for Disease Control.
LGBTQ+ care now, transition care soon: TPQC expands support for health care equity
QUAD CITIES -- When Tyler Mitchell went to a general health care practitioner a few years ago, just as the groundbreaking HIV preventative treatment of PrEP was introduced, he was shocked at what he...
