24 Apr 2020

Additional COVID-19 Cases in Iowa, Additional Deaths Confirmed

By Pat Garrett

DES MOINES, IOWA (April 24, 2020) — Today, the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has been notified of 521 additional positive cases for a total of 4,445 positive cases. There have been an additional 2,190 negative tests for a total of 27,528 negative tests to date, which includes testing reported by the State Hygienic Lab and other labs.

According to IDPH, an additional 11 deaths were also reported, 278 are currently hospitalized, and 1,604 Iowans have recovered.

24 Apr 2020

Gov Kim Reynolds Signs New Proclamation Continuing the State Public Health Emergency Declaration

By Pat Garrett

DES MOINES, IOWA (April 24, 2020) — Governor Kim Reynolds signed a new proclamation continuing the State Public Health Emergency Declaration. The proclamation permits health-care providers to begin the process of resuming some elective surgeries and procedures through a phased approach, permits farmers markets to begin limited operations with appropriate public-health precautions, and provides other relief to Iowans affected by this disaster.

24 Apr 2020

"Essential": What's In a Word?

By Thomas L Knapp

Are you an "essential worker" who needs to be on the job? Do you run a "non-essential" business" that's required to close and isn't eligible for a government bailout? When you leave your home is it for "essential travel" or are you engaging in "non-essential activity?" "Essential" versus "non-essential" may be the single most significant word-pairing that's come out of the COVID-19 panic and its associated shutdowns, lockdowns, and shakedowns.

24 Apr 2020

Iowa PBS Announces Paul Yeager as "Market to Market" Host

By Susan Ramsey

JOHNSTON, IOWA (April 24, 2020) — Iowa PBS announced that Producer Director Paul Yeager is the new host of Market to Market, Iowa PBS's weekly, nationally-syndicated agribusiness program. Market to Market's news and in-depth analysis on the $1 trillion business of agriculture is seen by viewers across Iowa and 20 other states. 

22 Apr 2020

Iowa PBS to Offer Spanish Language Safety Information Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

By Susan Ramsey

JOHNSTON, IOWA (April 22, 2020) — Spanish-speaking Iowans will now be able to access live translations of important information about the COVID-19 pandemic. Iowa PBS is offering second audio program (SAP) services in Spanish for its coverage of Governor Kim Reynolds' weekday COVID-19 press conferences and Iowa Press Special: Coronavirus episodes.

22 Apr 2020

The US Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments

By John W Whitehead

“They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

22 Apr 2020

Whither the Precautionary Principle?

By Thomas L Knapp

The precautionary principle, per Wikipedia, is "a strategy for approaching issues of potential harm when extensive scientific knowledge on the matter is lacking. It emphasizes caution, pausing, and review before leaping into new innovations that may prove disastrous."

20 Apr 2020

Victory: US Supreme Court Holds States Accountable to Abiding by Sixth Amendment Standard of a Unanimous Jury Verdict in Criminal Cases

By The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON DC (April 20, 2020) — In a 6-3 ruling, the US Supreme Court has declared that states must abide by the Sixth Amendment’s requirement of unanimous jury verdicts for convictions in criminal cases involving “serious offenses.”

20 Apr 2020

Small Business Versus the State

By Joel Schlosberg

On April 18, the US Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program lent out the last of $349 billion it had on hand in emergency funds. Efforts are underway to ensure that those billions will not be the Program's last.

17 Apr 2020

Appeals Court Chills First-Amendment Activity by Allowing Cops to Retaliate Against Nonviolent Protesters

By The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON DC (April 17, 2020) — The Rutherford Institute is pushing back against an effort by police to chill constitutionally-protected civil rights protests through the use of retaliatory lawsuits.

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