River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy is Kai Swanson’s guest at the WVIK Quad Cities’ public radio studios on the campus of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Swanson and McGreevy both attended Augustana College in the 1980’s. Saturday Morning Live! is a conversational tradition carried on by Swanson for the past two years, established by WVIK impresario, Don Wooten decades ago. Continue reading Todd McGreevy on WVIK’s “Saturday Morning Live!” with Kai Swanson, October 26, 2024→
Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the hypnotic qualities of Levora’s lava lamp, as well as stuff cinematic. Schulz, sadly, did not like Meg 2: The Trench as much as he did the first film. 2018’s The Meg, directed by Jon Turteltaub from Steve Alten’s 1997 novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror (aka “Jurassic Shark”), was well aware of the goofiness of the premise, and so everyone, including Jason Statham and the best-boys, had fun with it. In Ben Wheatley’s sequel, everything is dead serious. Schulz has invested such hopes that the fun of the first film not be lost in the second, Continue reading August 10, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Meg 2: The Trench,” “Theater Camp,” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”→
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy attended the 2023 Legislative Event Series: Meet Your Legislators event on 20 January, 8-9AM, hosted by the Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce. These were the featured speakers, state and federal, Republican and Democrat, Illinois and Iowa, who faced a lightning-round of questions:
U.S. Representative Eric Sorensen from Illinois, Dist 17 (D)
U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks from Iowa, Dist 1 (R)
Iowa Senator Chris Cournoyer, Dist 35 (R)
Iowa Senator Scott Webster, Dist 47 (R)
Illinois Senator Mike Halpin, Dist 36 (D)
Illinois House Minority Leader Tony McCombie, Dist 89 (R)
Rhonda Ludwig, Director of Government Affairs for the Chamber, deserves props for keeping her glims on the clock, keeping the speakers speaking at a brisk tempo while drilling down to the many questions specific to some of the legislators’ committee positions.
Monday January 2, 2023, hosts Jeffrey Wilson and Pat Miletich are joined by independent-newspaper publisher Todd McGreevy. The fifth protected right in the Constitution’s First Amendment is the Petition for Redress of Grievances, and in this episode, several instances of such petitioning are explored. McGreevy asserts that the petition clause is the only right that has not been adjudicated at the Supreme Court level, as evidenced by the dozens of years of effort by Bob Schulz and the We the People Foundation.
