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May 24, 2024 Bermas & McGreevy Talk $1.6MM Nothing Burger + Fractional Vote Counting in Iowa

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On today’s show, originally broadcast live on TNTRadio.live, Todd McGreevy & Jason Bermas discuss the recent cover story in the June 2024 River Cities’ Reader: What We Know Now a Year After the 324 Main Street Disaster.  Excerpt: Former Davenport City Administrator (who was paid more than $338,000 annually by taxpayers in 2023) Corrine Spiegel, hired the department heads that mismanaged two of the city’s biggest disasters in modern history – the 2019 flood wall failure and the 324 Main St. building collapse – secured a $1.6MM payment for emotional damages and lost wages in secret without a city council vote until after the 2023 municipal elections. Continue reading May 24, 2024 Bermas & McGreevy Talk $1.6MM Nothing Burger + Fractional Vote Counting in Iowa →

May 18, 2024 Jason Bermas & Todd McGreevy

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On today’s show, originally broadcast live on TNTRadio.live, Todd McGreevy explains the function and importance of the Grand Jury process. Todd also comments on the tragic 2023 collapse of The Davenport – a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa that was generally considered by residents and the public to be noticeably “not up to code” and suffered as a result of poor management, malfeasance and corruption. Watch then entire Jason Bermas first hour at https://tntvideo.podbean.com/e/todd-mcgreevy-on-the-jason-bermas-show-18-may-2024/ 

Tuesday May 30, 2023 City of Davenport News Conference re The Davenport Hotel Building Collapse

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This podcast is the one hour news conference held Tuesday May 30, 2023 around 11am inside the Davenport Police Department in downtown Davenport.

This is in the wake of the City belaying the demolition crews of the building known as The Davenport (formerly The Davenport Hotel) less than 48 hours after the Sunday afternoon partial collapse of the west side of 324 Main Street, which is a 1914 built building diagonally across the street from Davenport City Hall. Said building had as many as 50 residential tenants leasing apartments inside.

Due to the public pressure from displaced and concerned citizens amassing in a near mob like protests outside of City Hall early Tuesday morning, backing down the demolition crews.

The concerned citizens are crying foul due to the city claiming there was no one left inside the building early Monday, only to have a woman appear in a window Monday evening to be rescued.
Prior to this Tuesday news conference rumors were abound that two people who lived there were still missing and unaccounted for. Continue reading Tuesday May 30, 2023 City of Davenport News Conference re The Davenport Hotel Building Collapse →