17 Apr 2020

Iowa's Unemployment Rate Increases to 3.7 Percent in March

By Iowa Workforce Development

DES MOINES, IOWA (April 17, 2020) — Iowa’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate increased to 3.7 percent in March. The state’s jobless rate was 2.7 percent one year ago. The US unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent in March.

17 Apr 2020

Sens Charles "Chuck" Grassley, Ron Johnson Request Additional Crossfire Hurricane Records After Declassified Footnotes Reveal Steele Dossier Contained Reported Russian Disinformation

By Grassley Press

WASHINGTON DC (April 17, 2020) — Senators Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter Thursday to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray requesting all records from the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team.

17 Apr 2020

Appeals Court Chills First-Amendment Activity by Allowing Cops to Retaliate Against Nonviolent Protesters

By The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON DC (April 17, 2020) — The Rutherford Institute is pushing back against an effort by police to chill constitutionally-protected civil rights protests through the use of retaliatory lawsuits.

17 Apr 2020

This Year, More Than Ever, Monmouth College's Scots Day of Giving Was about More Than Just The Gifts

By Duane Bonifer

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (April 17, 2020) — During a time when it's easy to feel separated, the Monmouth College community came together Thursday in remarkable fashion.

17 Apr 2020

Sen Charles "Chuck" Grassley Joins Bipartisan Letter to HHS to Advocate for Relief for Senior Adult Communities and Health Care Workers

By Grassley Press

BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA (April 17, 2020) — Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) joined Sen James Lankford (R-OK) and 25 senators in calling on federal agencies to ensure that long-term care facilities occupied by seniors, as well as those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, receive adequate resources in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

17 Apr 2020

"China Lied, People Died?" Look Who's Talking!

By Thomas L Knapp

"The costs of the pandemic keep piling up," writes Marc Thiessen at the Washington Post. "Somebody has to pay for this unprecedented damage. That somebody should be the government of China." And why, pray tell, should China's government be punished? For "intentionally lying to the world about the danger of the virus, and proactively impeding a global response that might have prevented a worldwide contagion."

17 Apr 2020

Augustana’s Only Graduate Program Receives Accreditation

By Kirby Stockwell

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (April 17, 2020) — Augustana College received welcome news after a four-year accreditation process and after an 11-month and $3.5-million construction project on Brodahl Hall.

College professors and students were thrilled to earn accreditation for a new graduate program in speech-language pathology by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

17 Apr 2020

Iowa Small Business Owner Running Out of Time, Needs PPP Money

By Emily Carlson

WASHINGTON DC (April 16, 2020) — Word that the $350 billion in funds in the Paycheck Protection Program dried out is upsetting to small-business owners across the state, as well as the head of NFIB, or the National Federal of Independent Business, the state’s leading small-business organization.

16 Apr 2020

EPA Smart Sectors Program Releases Additional “Sector Snapshots”

By EPA Region 7 Office of Public Affairs

LENEXA, KANSAS (April 16, 2020) — Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released “sector snapshots” for eight industries participating in the Smart Sectors Program. The sector snapshot is a web-based tool that shows historical environmental and economic performance on a sector basis. Users can interact with data that include a range of up to 30 different combinations of environmental and economic parameters to view trends over time.

16 Apr 2020

EPA Announces $2 Million Available for Tribes to Clean Up Diesel Engines

By EPA Region 7 Office of Public Affairs

LENEXA, KANSAS (April 16, 2020) — The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the availability of $2 million in grant funding for tribal applicants to establish diesel emission reduction projects. Under this grant competition, applicants may request up to $800,000 in federal funding.

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