Bettendorf officials broke ground Friday morning at The Landing, an $18 million aquatic facility and ice rink. It’s located at the corner of 23rd Street and Middle Road. The event kicked off the city’s day-long 120th Birthday Community Celebration and included remarks by Bettendorf Mayor Bob Gallagher, YMCA of the Iowa Mississippi Valley Board Chair […]
Bettendorf said it expects to reopen 23rd Street from Middle Road to Lincoln Road by midday Friday, nearly a month ahead of schedule. Improvements include a new turn lane.
cars mounted the sidewalk, hit something, skirted the corner, came off the sidewalk, pedestrians scattering. how long did this go on for? so this goes on for an hour and a half plus until they finally say we ve been uptown. we ve been downtown to 23rd street, uptown to 96th street, fdr drive, third avenue side streets and we can t lose this pack, so tommy buda, who is the guy running the motorcade on the private security side, former fbi, nypd, very competent guy says let s go somewhere safe. take a breather and make a plan. they go to the 19th police precinct. that s where they shift to the taxi, but the spotters end up following them. and then they go to plan c, which actually works. and they shifted to the taxi, john, as a decoy to throw off the paparazzi. the idea would be the paparazzi were focused on the motorcade that was in place. if they could slip them into a taxi that would then disappear at midnight into a sea of other
where they were half a block behind the motorcade, and they literally crossed the yellow lines, drove into oncoming traffic until they caught up and placed themselves back there. that was among 20 things that happened, you know, from 23rd street to 96th street as they tried to stay, you know, on their tail. sonny, had you ever seen anything like this in your years of driving a taxi? no, i ve been driving now since 2018. this was the first time i saw. this you know, i had celebrities but other celebrities never got that much attention from the paparazzis. that s interesting. so does that give ewe you a e, with all the attention this has gotten, does it surprise you? you could tell, right, he lost his mother running away from the paparazzi as well. you could tell they were nervous and scared in the car. yeah. did they how much was the fare? did they give you a good tip?