30 Jul 2020

Gov Kim Reynolds to Hold Bi-Weekly Press Conferences Livestreamed through Iowa PBS

By Pat Garrett

DES MOINES, IOWA (July 30, 2020) — Governor Kim Reynolds will return to regular bi-weekly press conferences to update Iowans on the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Similar to previous press conferences, they will be streamed live on broadcast and online feeds by Iowa PBS. There will also be an ASL sign-language interpreter as well as a Spanish-language translation.

28 Jul 2020

Richardson-Sloane Special Collection Center Scheduled to Reopen 08/03

By Brittany Peacock

DAVENPORT, IOWA (July 28, 2020) — The Richardson-Sloane Special Collection Center at the Davenport Public Library Main Branch (321 N Main St) is scheduled to reopen August 3, 2020 by appointment only for the following services:

27 Jul 2020

Gov Kim Reynolds Appoints John Flynn as District Court Judge

By Pat Garrett

DES MOINES, IOWA (July 27, 2020) — Governor Kim Reynolds today announced her appointment of John Flynn as a district court judge in Judicial Election District 2B.

Flynn, of Boone, Iowa, currently practices law with the Jordan and Mahoney Law Firm PC in Boone. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa and his law degree from the Drake University Law School.

20 Jul 2020

CARES Act: Prelude to a $15 Minimum Wage?

By Thomas L Knapp

Included in the March 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act were three programs with less-euphonious acronyms: FPUC, PEUC, and PUA. These programs extended (by 13 weeks), expanded (to self-employed workers), and added a $600-per-week federal kicker to, state-level unemployment benefits. As July comes to a close, more than 25 million Americans are about to lose that federal kicker.

20 Jul 2020

Sen Charles "Chuck" Grassley Q&A: US Meat Supply-Chain

By Grassley Press

Q: What’s driving your renewed effort to fix flaws in the livestock markets?

20 Jul 2020

Test Iowa Clinic Site Opens in Plymouth County

By Pat Garrett

DES MOINES, IOWA (July 20, 2020) — A new Test Iowa clinic site opens today in Plymouth County.

The site is opening in conjunction with Floyd Valley Healthcare and will be located at 714 Lincoln Street NE in LeMars. Testing will be done 1-5PM, Monday through Friday, this week.

20 Jul 2020

Political Parties: Inevitable and Ugly, But Not Entirely Useless

By Thomas L Knapp

George Washington, America's first president, devoted part of his 1796 farewell address to warning against "[t]he alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension." He feared perpetual war for power between political parties both as "a frightful despotism" in and of itself, and as prelude to some future tyrant seeking "his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty."Was Washington right? Sort of.

15 Jul 2020

Sen Charles "Chuck" Grassley Statement on EU Court Overturning Improper State-Aid Case

By Grassley Press

WASHINGTON DC (July 15, 2020) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-IA) today released the following statement regarding the European Union General Court ruling that overturned a 2016 European Commission decision that incorrectly and unfairly targeted Apple, a US-based company.

15 Jul 2020

Yes, the Rent is Too Damn High — But Not Because the Minimum Wage is Too Damn Low

By Thomas L Knapp

"Full-time minimum wage workers cannot afford a two-bedroom rental anywhere in the US," Alicia Adamczyk writes at CNBC, "and cannot afford a one-bedroom rental in 95% of US counties." Adamczyk gets her figures from the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s annual "Out of Reach" report.

Here are a few numbers NLIHC isn’t as eager to talk about:

14 Jul 2020

America, You’ve Been Blacklisted: McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age

By John W Whitehead

“If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status.

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