DAVENPORT, IOWA (March 13, 2020) — River Action, Nahant Marsh Education Center, Sierra Club Eagle View Group, and Joyce and Tony Singh Foundation have canceled the Environmental Film Series for Sunday, March 15, 4PM, at the Figge Art Museum.

Our decision was based on the warnings and strong recommendations that have come out in recent hours regarding COVID-19.

We hope to reschedule, and we will let subscribers and the general public know all information at that time.

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (March 13, 2020) — The following people recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

Joe Field of Bettendorf (52722) at The Citadel

Kimberly Rodriguez of Muscatine (52761) at Southern Virginia University

The jury is still out on which of two things — COVID-19 or the panic over COVID-19 — will cost more lives and do more damage to the global economy. My money's still on the latter. In the meantime, I've developed a surefire, Groundhog Day type test for whether the emergency is over: Watch for Nobel laureate economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to start trying to convince us it was, all in all, actually a good thing.

WASHINGTON DC (March 13, 2020) — Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue yesterday swore in Devon Westhill to serve as the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights. Following the swearing in, Sec Perdue issued this statement: