WASHINGTON DC (September 25, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) and Sens Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the Whistleblower Programs Improvement Act (WPIA) to extend whistleblower-protections to more individuals who report wrong-doing and violations of securities and commo

NEW YORK, NEW YORK (September 25, 2019) — Mayor Bob Gallagher of Bettendorf, Iowa, is representing the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative for a series of meetings during in New York during UN Climate Week, including speaking at the Sustainable Innovation Forum in New York September 25.

DES MOINES, IOWA (September 24, 2019) — Today, Governor Kim Reynolds has directed the Iowa Department of Administrative Services (DAS) to develop a volunteer policy to help encourage state employees make a difference in their communities through volunteerism. DAS will collaborate with all state-department directors to consider how the policy best functions to benefit employees in all departments.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (September 24, 2019) — The Terracon Foundation announced a $2,500 grant to Living Lands and Waters, a river-cleanup organization that hosts river-cleanups, educational workshops, tree-plantings, invasive-species removal projects, and other key conservation efforts in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee.