On Sunday, March 8, millions of Americans woke up an hour early, having set their clocks ahead by an hour the night before, and dug in for a week or so of bleary-eyed, irritable attempts to tweak their bodies' natural sleeping and waking rhythms. This fatuous semi-annual "spring forward, fall back" ritual, called "Daylight Saving Time," ranks high on my personal list of "dumbest ideas in the history of mankind."

DES MOINES, IOWA (March 6, 2020) — Governor Kim Reynolds and Lieutenant Governor Adam Gregg released their public schedules for the week of Monday, March 9, 2020-Sunday, March 15, 2020. 

The following events are open to credentialed members of the media:

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Gov Reynolds, Lt Gov Gregg attend Empower Rural Iowa Day on the Hill

Iowa Department of Public Safety

215 E 7th St

Des Moines, IA

10AM

As of early March, there were fewer than 200 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in the United States. Nonetheless, Congress passed, and US president Donald Trump signed, an $8.3 billion "emergency funding" bill theoretically related to containing the disease. Had the federal government done nothing at all, the "beer flu" might have conceivably have ended up killing a tiny fraction of the number of Americans who will die of influenza during the same period.

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (March 6, 2020) — WQPT–PBS for the Quad Cities Region and Western Illinois University — Quad Cities’ Student Services encourages all Quad Citizens to submit images of art, photos, and designs for possible display in the 5th Annual Campus Art Show. A limited number of works will be selected by a panel of judges, but the deadline for entry is Wednesday, March 18, 2020.

The show will run from April 1 through April 30, 2020, in the WIU-QC Library.