Both sides sound eminently reasonable.

Mike Ralston, president of the Iowa Association of Business & Industry, is an eloquent voice against Senate File 413, known as the "Fair Share" bill: "People should not have to join a union to get a job. There's 60 years of law in Iowa that says that."

Jan Laue, executive vice president of the Iowa AFL-CIO, speaks clearly for Fair Share: "You still don't have to belong to a union to get or keep a job [under Fair Share]. You're accepting all of the benefits that the union gets for you, so you are a part of it. If you don't want to be a part of it, then you ought to go work somewhere else."

On Thursday, April 19, the Family Museum in Bettendorf will celebrate its 10th anniversary with an open house from 5 to 8 p.m. The evening will include music by Ellis Kell and light hors d'oeuvres and refreshments. The open house will also include an awards ceremony celebrating the successes of the facility, the people who have helped make it what it is today, and the museum's millionth visitor. Admission to the Family Museum is free during this open house. For more information, visit (http://www.familymuseum.org).

Iowa Public Radio News has won four awards from two prestigious news associations. The Radio & Television News Directors Association presented its 2007 Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for News Documentary (Small Market) to Jeneane Beck for her documentary on child-abuse investigations in Iowa. The documentary aired in December 2006 on Iowa Public Radio. Iowa Public Radio was also the recipient of three awards from the Northwest Broadcast News Association. In the Association's 2006 Radio & TV Sevareid Awards, Iowa Public Radio won in the Investigative category for Beck's stories on laboratory-waste disposal at Iowa State University; Beck was also given an Award of Merit in the Documentary/Special category for her documentary on child-abuse investigations. Iowa Public Radio also took an Award of Merit in the Newscast category.

Bobby Green is Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's dream spokesperson.

Green owns the Cordova-based company Bob's Blacktop. His company brings in annual revenues of roughly $750,000, he said, and he doesn't offer his three employees health insurance. He doesn't have health insurance, either.

"I myself have had a couple surgeries, and those bills are just stacking up," Green said this week. "And I'm just having to make monthly payments on them."