06 Aug 2020

Consumer Alert: Beware of Face-Masks with Misleading Claims, Safety Problems, Per Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller

By Lynn Hicks

 

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 6, 2020) — Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller warns businesses and consumers to avoid certain types of face-masks, which may be sold using deceptive claims and may provide inadequate protection from COVID-19.

05 Aug 2020

Gov Kim Reynolds Signs Executive Order to Restore Voting Rights of Felons Who Have Completed Their Sentence

By Pat Garrett

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 5, 2020) — Governor Kim Reynolds signed Executive Order 7, restoring the voting rights of thousands of Iowans who have completed their felony sentences.

03 Aug 2020

Gov Kim Reynolds Appoints Melissa Anderson-Seeber as District Court Judge

By Pat Garrett

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 3, 2020) — Governor Kim Reynolds today announced her appointment of Melissa Anderson-Seeber as a district court judge in Judicial Election District 1B.

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.

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