SCOTT COUNTY (April 11, 2019) — Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has signed a disaster proclamation for Scott County as one of several Iowa Counties impacted by flooding. That proclamation means that grant-assistance and case-management services are available to impacted residents for needs including: auto and home repairs, clothing, food, and emergency housing. Individuals and families must meet income-eligibility guidelines to qualify for the Iowa Individual Assistance Grant Program.

The Scott County Emergency Management Agency will be working with the American Red Cross to distribute bottled water to residents that are being affected by the flood. Residents who are currently impacted with the current flooding, and don’t have access to clean, potable water, are eligible to received donated bottled water. Potable Water Distribution point will be at the former Pleasant Valley Fire Station building, 24495 Valley Dr.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA (April 11, 2019) — The Rutherford Institute has denounced the US government’s attempts to extradite and prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for his part in disclosing information relating to government-misconduct that is within the public’s right to know.

JOHNSTON, IOWA (April 11, 2019) — Iowans can experience their state in new ways during Iowa Public Television's new three-part series, "Iowa Land and Sky". Leveraging the latest advancements in aerial-drone cinematography and interviews with experts, this limited-series brings viewers a unique bird's-eye perspective of the state's landforms, waterways, and towns from the Loess Hills in western Iowa to the Mississippi River on the state's eastern border.

On April 11, the ongoing saga of journalist and transparency activist Julian Assange took a dangerous turn.  Ecuador's president, Lenin Moreno, revoked his asylum in that country's London embassy.

"Congressional Democrats and Republicans," reports ProPublica, "are moving to permanently bar the IRS from creating a free electronic tax-filing system."

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street, If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat. If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat, If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.   Don’t ask me what I want it for If you don’t want to pay some more ‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman… And you’re working for no one but me. — George Harrison, “Taxman”

DES MOINES, IOWA (April 8, 2019) — Diamond Vogel and Keep Iowa Beautiful announced the grant awards for the 2019 Paint Iowa Beautiful program. The program provides free paint to a wide variety of public service projects throughout Iowa. This is the second year Diamond Vogel agreed to expand the paint allocation to include Iowa's 70 state parks. 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of Iowa's state park system.

A February Harris poll finds that 49.6% of Millennial and Generation Z Americans would "prefer living in a socialist country."

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), among other politicians, proclaim a message of "democratic socialism," evoking an ideology last ascendant in the early 1900s when Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas moved the needle in US elections.

ROANOKE, VIRGINIA (April 5, 2019) — The Rutherford Institute is sounding the alarm over a local Virginia ordinance that makes it illegal for people to sleep in their cars and subjects them to warrantless seizures and searches by police and a fine of $250.

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