06 Apr 2020

COVID-19 Death Confirmed in Scott County Resident

By Brooke Barnes

DAVENPORT, IOWA (April 6, 2020) — Scott County Health Department (SCHD) has been notified of the first COVID-19 death of a Scott County resident, an elderly adult (>81 years old).

06 Apr 2020

Tennessee Supreme Court Allows Police to Carry Out Warrantless, Suspicionless Searches of Probationers’ Homes, Undermining Fourth Amendment

By The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON DC (April 3, 2020) — Pushing back against government efforts to chip away at the privacy and security guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment, The Rutherford Institute has asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a state court decision allowing police to search the homes of probationers without any suspicion or justification. In an 

03 Apr 2020

Neither Pandemic nor Panic Supersede the First Amendment

By Thomas L Knapp

Rodney Howard-Browne, pastor of The River Church in Tampa, Florida, strongly believes that God wants his church to continue holding live services for hundreds of parishioners, even in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister and state attorney Andrew Warren strongly believe that they're entitled to threaten Howard-Browne with arrest for holding those services, then follow through on that threat.

01 Apr 2020

Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest

By John W Whitehead

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”—Viktor Frankl

01 Apr 2020

By The Time We Notice We're Hungry, It May Be Too Late

By Thomas L Knapp

"[A]s the top US watermelon-producing state prepares for harvest," Reuters reports, "many of the workers needed to collect the crop are stuck in Mexico .... Without the workers, crops could rot in fields throughout the country,” starting in Florida and California where major harvests begin in April and May.

31 Mar 2020

CBO’s Analysis of the President’s FY 2021 Budget

By Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released, on March 30, its analysis of the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget using its own assumptions to evaluate the budget’s policies.

30 Mar 2020

Congress Declares Itself Non-Essential

By Thomas L Knapp

Around the US, "essential” workers are going to work every day and doing their jobs, COVID-19 pandemic or not. Factory workers are producing things. Truck and delivery drivers are transporting those things. Grocery store employees and food service workers are making sure food reaches our tables. Congress, not so much.

26 Mar 2020

Decarceration: COVID-19 is Opportunity Knocking

By Thomas L Knapp

On March 23, 14 US Senators from both major political parties asked US Attorney General William Barr and Michael Carvajal, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, to "transfer non-violent offenders who are at high risk for suffering complications from COVID-19 to home confinement." It's a smart idea, and one local jails and state prisons around the country are already implementing. But it raises an important question and also points to an important opportunity.

25 Mar 2020

Rescheduled: Shred Day at Davenport Public Library

By Brittany Peacock

DAVENPORT, IOWA (March 25, 2020) — Davenport Public Library’s annual Shred Day has been rescheduled to Thursday, September 10, 1–4PM, at Eastern (6000 Eastern Ave).

25 Mar 2020

COVID-19: What Would Rosie The Riveter Do?

By Thomas L Knapp

Half the readers I hear from accuse me of Trump Derangement Syndrome. The other half accuse me of rabid Trump fandom. In truth, I think of US President Donald J Trump in exactly the same way I think of most other politicians: He's usually wrong and often dangerous. But when he's right, he's right. He's right when he says that America needs to "open up" soon. If anything, his target date of Easter is too distant. The longer we wait to get moving again, the longer it will take to recover.

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