WASHINGTON DC (May 4, 2020) — US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the US Department of Agriculture intends to make available up to $100 million in competitive grants for activities designed to expand the availability and sale of renewable fuels.

DES MOINES, IOWA (May 4, 2020) — The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has been notified of 534 additional positive cases for a total of 9,703 positive cases. There have been an additional 3,441 negative tests for a total of 47,458 negative tests to date, which includes testing reported by the State Hygienic Lab and other labs. 85 percent of new positive cases today are in the 22 counties where restrictions remain in place.

"Remember $2 gas?" former House Speaker Newt Gingrich asked in 2012 as he sought the Republican Party's presidential nomination. Politicians love to remind us of low gas-prices in the past and promise their return in the future. But in early April, Reuters reports, US President Donald Trump threatened to severely curtail the US government's military relationship with Saudi Arabia unless the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reduced oil output to drive prices back UP.

Ranai Srivastav, a senior at Pleasant Valley High School, shows mask extender-straps produced by students in the STEAM on Wheels program that have been donated to frontline workers in the Quad-Cities. More below.