PELLA, IOWA (November 20, 2019) — Twenty-nine students are members of the Flying Pans Steel Band at Central College. The group performed its "Steel Graffiti" show November 1-3 in Douwstra Auditorium and will perform its "Caribbean Christmas" show at 7:30PM, Saturday, December 7, in the Vermeer Banquet Room of Graham Conference Center.

Clayton Hunn of Muscatine (52761)

Mattie Francis of Port Byron (61275)

Bria Holthe of Muscatine (52761)

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (November 20, 2019) — Gilda’s Club is hosting a FREE Lunch and Learn workshop titled “Prostate Cancer and Cancer Experience Registry” on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, noon–2PM, at Unity Point Health — Trinity Cancer Center in the Moline Education Center (500 John Deere Road, Moline).

WASHINGTON DC (November 20, 2019) — Senators Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairmen of the Senate Finance and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committees, respectively, today released a proposal to avert the collapse of critically-underfunded multiemployer pension plans and reform rules for these plans to prevent future funding-shortfalls within these important pillars of the American retirement system.

Annie Karni, Maggie Haberman, and Sheila Kaplan of the New York Times describe US President Donald Trump's proposed ban on flavored e-cigarette products as "a swift and bold reaction to a growing public health crisis affecting teenagers" that Trump backed away from "under pressure from his political advisers and lobbyists to factor in the potential pushback from his supporters." Maybe they're right about Trump's motivations, but they're wrong about pretty much everything else.