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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”

August 10, 2023Uncategorizedrcreader

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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” →

January 20, 2023 — QC Chamber Legislative Forum

January 22, 2023UncategorizedMichael Helke

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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)
Illinois Representative Norine Hammond, Dist 94 (R)
Illinois Representative Gregg Johnson, Dist 72 (D)
Illinois Representative Dan Swanson, Dist 71 (R)
Illinois Representative Travis Weaver, Dist 93 (R)
Iowa Representative Ken Croken, Dist 97 (D)
Iowa Representative Monica Kurth, Dist 98 (D)
Iowa Representative Gary Mohr, Dist 93 (R)
Iowa Representative Norlin Mommsen, Dist 70 (R)
Iowa Representative Mike Vondran, Dist 94 (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.

Power and Potential of Petitioning of Redress of Grievances — Todd McGreevy Joins Pat Miletich and Jeffrey Wilson on Red Voice Media

January 3, 2023UncategorizedMichael Helke

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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.

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