Lee Enterprises -- owner of the Quad City Times -- rolled out paywalls for its Montana and Wyoming online newspaper sites August 1.
Even print newspaper subscribers will face charges for online access after a limit of between 15 to 20 page views a month. The charge for print subscribers ($1.95 to $2.95 per month) would be less than online only subscribers ($5 to $6.95 per month).
The online news sites' homepage, obituaries, ad content, calendars, photo galleries, classifieds and videos would not count toward the page view limits.
Isle of Capri Casinos -- owner of Bettendorf's riverboat casino -- posted a $2.6 million first quarter loss and blamed the negative results on Mississippi River flooding that impacted five of its gambling boats.
The loss of 6 cents per share compares to a loss of 8 cents per share ($2.8 million) during the first quarter of 2010.
Isle officials in its news release August 25 estimated the impact of flooding on its earnings was more than $7 million and stated the company will be seeking reimbursement of property damage and business interruption costs from its insurance carriers.
A five-year comparison of MidAmerican Energy financials shows a steady decline in profits, but the privately owned utility still earned a healthy 11.03 percent return on equity from its Iowa electric operations last year.
The utility has avoided seeking an electric rate increase since 1996 and has agreed not to increase rates through 2013 under a deal with the Iowa Utility Board (IUB).
The plan, according to the Journal, would give Lee more time to refinance its more than $1 billion in debt which comes due in April 2012.
Under the exchange, creditors Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Monarch Alternative Capital, could end up owning about 13 percent of Lee, according to the Journal.
A used car firm -- which gained reluctant approval to relocate to a highly visible site in downtown Bettendorf -- has moved to the new location without completing any of the landscaping which was part of the development's site plan.
Premier Picks Auto Sales was forced to leave its location in the 1400 block of State Street because of the new Interstate 74 Bridge and related downtown street improvements.
A Florida-based firm now seeking nearly $1 million in state and local incentives for an LED light assembly plant in Bettendorf proposed a similar facility less than a year ago in Ulster County, New York.
That project in Kingston, New York never materialized. The light assembly plant there would have been housed in a vacant IBM facility now being redeveloped. State development officials turned down his request there for financial support.
The Pleasant Valley School District wants to buy land to swap with the City of Bettendorf for a future elementary school along Forest Grove Road.
The school board Monday (7/18) approved a contract to buy 19 acres of land for $583,000 contingent on swapping that property for 15 acres of land the city recently purchased as part of a new 92-acre park north of Forest Grove Road and east of Middle Road (just south of Interstate 80).
Lee Enterprises -- parent of the Quad City Times -- is again facing delisting from the New York Stock Exchange while pressure mounts on the newspaper chain to refinance its more than $1 billion in debt.
Gamblers frequenting the Isle of Capri Casino in Bettendorf fell again in 2011, continuing an 11-year decline.
Admissions to the riverboat casino totaled 1,145,848 during the fiscal year ended June 30, compared to 1,149,086 admissions during fiscal 2010.
While admissions declined, revenues for the Bettendorf casino increased slightly from $78.34 million in 2010 to $78.48 million in the latest fiscal year.
Developers of the Shoppes at Duck Creek in Bettendorf want to build a Pizza Ranch restaurant and close one of the two entrances off Lincoln Road serving the shopping area.
The city's Board of Adjustment approved a special use permit to allow a drive-up window for the restaurant, and the city's Planning and Zoning Commission approved the site plan for the restaurant Wednesday (6/15).
The state of Iowa has suspended $47,500 in fines against a southwest Iowa nursing home cited for inadequate staffing and the physical and verbal abuse of residents.
Lee Enterprises, Inc. – owner of the QC Times and Daily Dispatch/Argus – says it hit a "revenue inflection point" with more digital than print revenue in its third quarter.
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