MOLINE, ILLINOIS (November 20, 2019) — Gilda’s Club is hosting a FREE Lunch and Learn workshop titled “Prostate Cancer and Cancer Experience Registry” on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, noon–2PM, at Unity Point Health — Trinity Cancer Center in the Moline Education Center (500 John Deere Road, Moline).

WASHINGTON DC (November 20, 2019) — Senators Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairmen of the Senate Finance and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committees, respectively, today released a proposal to avert the collapse of critically-underfunded multiemployer pension plans and reform rules for these plans to prevent future funding-shortfalls within these important pillars of the American retirement system.

Annie Karni, Maggie Haberman, and Sheila Kaplan of the New York Times describe US President Donald Trump's proposed ban on flavored e-cigarette products as "a swift and bold reaction to a growing public health crisis affecting teenagers" that Trump backed away from "under pressure from his political advisers and lobbyists to factor in the potential pushback from his supporters." Maybe they're right about Trump's motivations, but they're wrong about pretty much everything else.

DES MOINES, IOWA (November 20, 2019) — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate announced on Wednesday several new measures his office is taking to ensure the integrity of Iowa’s felon database. Felons are currently barred from voting in Iowa unless their rights have been restored by the Governor. Iowa’s felon database contains more than 90,000 files.