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.

17 Apr 2020

"China Lied, People Died?" Look Who's Talking!

By Thomas L Knapp

"The costs of the pandemic keep piling up," writes Marc Thiessen at the Washington Post. "Somebody has to pay for this unprecedented damage. That somebody should be the government of China." And why, pray tell, should China's government be punished? For "intentionally lying to the world about the danger of the virus, and proactively impeding a global response that might have prevented a worldwide contagion."

16 Apr 2020

Davenport Public Library Announces "QC Life in the New Normal" Writing Project

By Kathryn Kuntz

DAVENPORT, IOWA (April 16, 2020) — The Davenport Public Library needs your help in preserving real-time reflections about life in the Quad Cities during the COVID-19 era.

Submit a 200-500-word writing piece about how you're coping. For example, adults may submit essays, short stories, or other creative-writing pieces. Kids and students may want to send in diary entries.

Writing prompts include: What am I grateful for? Who have I come to admire? How have I changed?

15 Apr 2020

2020 Iowa State Fair Way We Live Award Entries Are Now Open

By Mindy Williamson

DES MOINES, IA (04/15/2020) (readMedia)-- The Iowa State Fair, Pioneer and media sponsors Iowa Farmer Today and the WHO radio BIG SHOW are seeking entries for the 2020 Way We Live Award. The Way We Live Award, in its 12th year of recognizing outstanding farm families, will award six Iowa families who exemplify hard-working farm values and a love for the occupation of farming. So far, the Way We Live Award has been given to 69 well-deserving Iowa families.

15 Apr 2020

Instead of a Column, by a Man Too Burnt Out to Write One

By Thomas L Knapp

In the normal course of things, I write my columns to a particular formula, that of the "op-ed." I pick a subject that's riding high in the news cycle (or, better yet, is about to be riding high in the news cycle, making me look prophetic) and make the most compelling — but concise! — argument I can come up with for my position on that subject.

15 Apr 2020

Iowa PBS Presents "Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women"

By Susan Ramsey

JOHNSTON, IOWA (April 15, 2020) — Many Iowans have spent 2020 reflecting on the centennial anniversary of the 19th amendment, but may not know that a key player in the fight for women's suffrage was one of our own. In honor of Iowan Carrie Chapman Catt's life and the ratification of the 19th amendment, Iowa PBS presents Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women.

13 Apr 2020

Will We Learn COVID-19's Most Important Lesson?

By Thomas L Knapp

On February 29, US Surgeon General Jerome Adams took to Twitter to admonish Americans:  "Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus ..." A little over a month later, Adams finally got around to asking the Centers for Disease Control if perhaps he'd been talking through his hat when talking through a mask might have been smarter.

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