WEST DES MOINES, IOWA (April 16, 2019) — The Iowa Restaurant Association will be hosting their annual State Mixology Championships at Smash Park in West Des Moines on April 25. Competitors will create three cocktails for a panel of judges during the day and will be judged on taste, appearance, overall creativity, and personality. The winner will be crowned Iowa's Top Mixologist. A public tasting-event will follow from 

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (April 15, 2019) — The Quad Cities River Bandits received a dominant performance on the mound from Shawn Dubin and collected a season-high 13-hits to record a 7-2 win over Cedar Rapids on Monday night at Perfect Game Field. All nine hitters in the Bandits lineup finished with at least one hit.

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (April 15, 2019) —  After a successful Hometown Kickoff in Newark on Saturday, where he argued that Americans can’t wait for justice, Senator Cory Booker will travel to Iowa today to unveil one plank of his plan to ensure economic justice in our country — a bold new tax-cut aimed at putting more money in the pockets of American families.  April 15 is Tax Day, the deadline for Americans to file their 2018 federal income-tax returns.

WASHINGTON DC (April 15, 2019) — An average taxpayer is going to have to fork over more than $2,000 this year just to cover their share of the interest on the national debt. It’s a huge sum going purely to finance the spending and borrowing of the past.

At the rate the national-debt is rising, interest payments — the fastest-growing part of the federal budget — will be bigger than Medicaid by next year and the military by 2025.