04 Oct 2016

2016 Frieze Lecture Series Celebrates Rock Island 175th Anniversary with a look at 1841

By Lisa Lockheart

Rock Island, IL: Rock Islanders were busy founding a new City in 1841, but that wasn't the only notable event of that year. The 2016 Frieze Lecture Series discussion theme celebrates "1841, the Year That Rock Island Began" and the current events t...

04 Oct 2016

Fighting for a Cure

By Rep. Dave Loebsack

Dear Friend,

 

Far too many Americans have been touched by breast cancer, whether the disease has struck a family member, spouse, friend or colleague. It is estimated that this year alone, 246,660 women and 2,600 men are expected...

04 Oct 2016

USDA Issues Safety-Net Payments to Farmers in Response to 2015 Market Downturn

By USDA Office of Communications

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2016 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that beginning today, many of the 1.7 million farms that enrolled in either the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) o...

04 Oct 2016

FACT SHEET: The White House Rural Forum

By USDA Office of Communications

"Strong rural communities are key to a stronger America" – President Barack Obama

Tomorrow, on Wednesday, October 5, the Whi...

04 Oct 2016

Food and Agriculture Co-op Income Again Sets Record in 2015, USDA Data Show

By USDA Office of Communications

Net Income for Top 100 Co-ops Rose by 14 Percent

 
04 Oct 2016

Grassley Presses EpiPen Maker, Federal Agency on Medicaid Classification

By Grassley Press

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is pressing the company that makes EpiPens and the federal agency that oversees Medicaid on whether the company over-charged states by misclassifying its product and for communications between Mylan and t...

04 Oct 2016

Health Insurance Open Enrollment Begins Nov. 1st

By Craig Cooper

 

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Oct. 4, 2016 – If you don’t have health insurance now, you could have coverage by January 1 with the assistance of the Genesis Health Insurance Navigators.

 

Enrollment this...

04 Oct 2016

Register Now for STEM Teachers Night Out This Wednesday

By Quad City Engineering and Science Council (QCESC)
Since 2009, the Quad City Engineering and Science Council has hosted regular, free STEM Teacher Night Out Events for area STEM Teachers, School Administration & key STEM Stakeholders to collaborate and share information...
04 Oct 2016

Medicare medical device identifiers; report shows big expense to patients, taxpayers for seven faulty cardiac implants

By Grassley Press

Senators Warren and Grassley Comment on HHS Report on Medicare Savings from Inclusion of Medical Device Identifiers on Claim Forms

Washington, D.C. - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today comm...

04 Oct 2016

Halloween Parade volunteers, entrants wanted

By Kurt Allemeier

Help make Davenport's Halloween Parade "spook-tacular!"

Volunteer or enter a group or float in the Oct. 29 parade. For more information, go to

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