11 Dec 2019

WQPT Director of Capital Projects and Planning Retires

By Lora Adams

 

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (December 11, 2019) — In April 2013, Mary Pruess was named General Manager of WQPT, Quad Cities PBS. During her tenure, WQPT moved offices, restructured master control and programming, and continued with a focus on the creation of local television-programming, to be aired along with PBS programming. As Mary put it, “We are creating a new way of being a public broadcasting station.”

11 Dec 2019

Sen Charles "Chuck" Grassley Pays Tribute to Former Iowa Congressman Berkley Bedell

By Grassley Press

WASHINGTON DC (December 11, 2019) — Prepared floor remarks by Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley's tribute to former Iowa Congressman Berkley Bedell:

 

I come to the floor today to pay tribute to an extraordinary Iowan with whom I shared a decades-long friendship.

Over this past weekend, former Iowa congressman Berkley Bedell passed away at age 98.

11 Dec 2019

Wheaton College (IL) Student Lindsay Danielson of Bettendorf, Iowa, Performed in "Through His Own Redeeming Love," the 2019 Christmas Festival Concert

By Emily Bratcher

 

WHEATON, ILLINOIS (December 11, 2019) — Wheaton College student Lindsay Danielson performed in "Through His Own Redeeming Love," the 2019 Christmas Festival presented by the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. Danielson, of Bettendorf, Iowa, sang alto in the Concert Choir.

11 Dec 2019

Finance Committee Senators Statement after Briefing on Multiemployer Pension Problems

By Grassley Press

WASHINGTON DC (December 11, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR), Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy Chairman Rob Portman (R-OH), and Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-OH), issued the following joint statement after Finance Committee members received a bipartisan briefing on the health of multiemployer pensions plans.

11 Dec 2019

Iowa Reps Call on Administration to Uphold Integrity of RFS

By Joe Hand

Washington, D.C. – Today, Reps Dave Loebsack (IA-02), Abby Finkenauer (IA-01), and Cindy Axne (IA-03) sent a letter to Russell Vought, the Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as well as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler, and President Trump, about the EPA’s October supplemental proposed rule regarding the reallocation of Small Refinery Exemptions (SRE) under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

11 Dec 2019

Gov Kim Reynolds Launches Public Awareness Campaign to Combat Youth Vaping

By Pat Garrett

DES MOINES, IOWA (December 11, 2019) — Governor Kim Reynolds, Iowa Department of Public Health (DPH), and the Iowa Department of Education (DOE) launched a new vaping awareness and prevention campaign aimed at informing teens about the reality of vaping and its consequences, and helping parents know how to address the issue and protect their kids.

11 Dec 2019

Sen Charles "Chuck" Grassley on "Extraordinary" Abuses Laid Out in FISA Report

By Grassley Press

WASHINGTON DC (December 10, 2019) — Prepared floor remarks by Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley on the Inspector General report on Russia investigation and FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]:

 

11 Dec 2019

The Nutcracker This Weekend

By Ballet Quad Cities

 

DAVENPORT, IOWA (December 10, 2019) — Boasting Tchaikovsky’s glorious score, Ballet Quad Cities and Orchestra Iowa present The Nutckracker in style. Whether this is your first Nutcracker or your fiftieth, the holidays will not be complete without a visit to the Historic Adler Theatre to cheer on Clara and her prince as they battle the fearsome Rat King, and travel through the magical Land of Snow to the Sugar Plum Fairy’s Kingdom of the Sweets.

11 Dec 2019

Sen Charles "Chuck" Grassley Statement on WTO Appellate Body Losing Quorum

By Grassley Press

WASHINGTON DC (December 10, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) today released the following statement regarding the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body losing its quorum and therefore the ability to hear or rule on appeals.

11 Dec 2019

Sin Taxes and Other Orwellian Methods of Compliance

By John W Whitehead

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”— CS Lewis

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