WASHINGTON DC (July 15, 2020)  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) issued the following statement regarding tomorrow’s tax-filing day and the diligent work by IRS to manage this tax filing season amid the global pandemic.

MOUNT VERNON, IOWA (July 15, 2020)  Cornell College will welcome students to campus as it reopens for the fall 2020 semester with classes beginning August 24 for 

DAVENPORT, IOWA (July 15, 2020 Gilda’s Club is hosting a free series of virtual workshops for children, teens, and their families on Wednesdays at 6PM, July 8 through July 29, 2020.

Children, teens, and their families are invited to join us via Zoom and work together to create, build, and learn as a team. Families can participate in all four events or choose based on interests.

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA (July 15, 2020) A total of 123 DePauw student-athletes have earned recognition from the North Coast Athletic Conference as members of the league's 2019-20 Academic Honor Roll.

Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore on an active roster in a sport sponsored by the conference and hold a cumulative grade-point average of 3.50 or higher.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (July 15, 2020) Gilda’s Club is hosting a free virtual workshop titled “The Many Faces of Grief” on Tuesday, July 28, 6–7:30PM, via Zoom.

DES MOINES, IOWA (July 15, 2020) The following local students graduated from Drake University at the end of the spring 2020 semester. Drake University is a midsize, private university in Des Moines, Iowa, enrolling more than 3,000 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students. Students choose from over 70 majors, minors, and concentrations and 20 graduate degrees offered through six colleges and schools.

LENEXA, KANSAS (July 15, 2020) — The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the 2020 notice of funding availability under its Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program, including funding for the new State infrastructure financing authority WIFIA (SWIFIA) program.

SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI (July 15, 2020) Earning a spot on Drury University's Dean's List is a significant accomplishment; it means a student earned a grade-point average of 3.6 or greater (on a 4-point scale) while carrying a full-time course load of 12 or more semester hours at Drury, a top Midwestern university, according to US News and World Report. In the spring semester, the following student(s) made the day school Dean's list:

GALESBURG, ILLINOIS (July 15, 2020) About 300 Knox College seniors received their bachelor's degrees on June 7, 2020, in Knox College's Virtual Conferring of Degrees ceremony.

Area students who graduated include:

Paul Sanders of Milan, Illinois (61264), graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

“If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status.

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