JOHNSTON, IOWA (April 4, 2019) — Iowa Public Television's Dan Wardell kicks off his thirteenth annual Reading Road Trip on Thursday, June 6. This summer, 29 lucky Iowa communities will receive a visit from Wardell, the popular host of the children's series KIDS Clubhouse Adventures. IPTV partners with librarians statewide to promote summer-reading each year.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (April 4, 2019) — All juvenile materials go fine-free in the Davenport Public Library.

At the City Council Meeting on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, the announcement was made that all Juvenile Materials in the Davenport Public Library will be deemed fine-free beginning April 8, to kick off National Library Week.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (April 3, 2019) — The Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency and Regional Office of Education is hosting its Teacher Job Fair on Monday, April 15, 2019, at the Mississippi Bend AEA located at 729 21st Street in Bettendorf, from 2-5PM. The purpose of the Teacher Job Fair is to bring school districts looking for teachers together with teachers looking for jobs.

Governor Andrew Cuomo "insisted Monday (April 1) that New York will pass a law to legalize recreational pot before the Legislature adjourns in June," The New York Post reports. He's been promising legalization for some time. Many New Yorkers had hoped the measure would be included in this year's state budget.

DES MOINES, IOWA (April 3, 2019) — The Iowa Finance Authority Board of Directors today awarded a total of more than $8.6 million in federal housing tax-credits to support the construction of 552 rental homes for families and seniors. The twelve projects are located in Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Grimes, Harlan, Marshalltown, Marion, Norwalk, Pella, Red Oak, Spencer, Urbandale, and Waterloo.

QUAD CITIES (April 2, 2019) — 

All 25 entries for the Holocaust Visual Arts Contest are now being displayed at the Moline Public Library (3210 41st St, Moline, Illinois) until April 16, and then the entries will be at Rutabaga Art Studio in Geneseo, Illinois.

Please stop by and see the amazing works of our local students.

2019 Winners of "The Meyer and Frances Shnurman Holocaust Visual Arts Contest" are as follows:

We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.” — Rod Serling

In a recent column on the mating dance between Big Government and Big Tech, I noted that "Big Tech wants to be regulated by Big Governments because regulation makes it more difficult and expensive for new competitors to enter the market."

Two days after I hit "publish" on that column, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for government regulation of social media in a Washington Post op-ed.

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (April 1, 2019) — In partnership with the Child Abuse Council, St Ambrose University will host a Pinwheel Garden dedication at the Health and Human Services Building at 3PM on Wednesday, April 3. Students from the Children's Campus at St Ambrose will be present to help plant the pinwheels.

Governments around the world began trying to bring the Internet under control as soon as they realized the danger to their power represented by unfettered public access to, and exchange of, information. From attempts to suppress strong encryption technology to the Communications Decency Act in the US and China's "Great Firewall," such efforts have generally proven ineffectual. But things are changing, and not for the better.

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