MUSCATINE, IOWA (February 24, 2020) — Spring is in the air at the Muscatine Art Center, and the season is chockfull of fun! In addition to Mini Masters for the youngest learners and Kids’ Saturday Workshops for school-aged kids, free spring break activities and events for families are on the calendar.

Spring Break

JOHNSTON, IOWA (February 20, 2020) — As Iowa girls battle for a ticket to the state basketball tournament, Iowa PBS is preparing to provide live coverage of the championship action, victories and heartache.

WASHINGTON DC (February 20, 2020) — According to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget would reduce debt from 80 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) today to 66 percent by 2030 and reduce deficits from $1.1 trillion (4.9 percent of GDP) in 2020 to $261 billion (0.7 percent) in 2030.

DES MOINES, IOWA (February 19, 2020) — From Friday, March 13 through Sunday, March 15, the 2020 All Iowa Auto Show will transform Iowa Events Center into the state’s largest new car showroom with 100,000 square feet of inventory to look at.

Purchase your tickets now at www.IowaAutoShow.com.

JOHNSON, IOWA (February 19, 2020) — The year 2020 marks the centennial of Iowa's state parks system. To help commemorate this milestone, Iowa PBS will debut Iowa Outdoors: 100th Anniversary of Iowa State Parks on Wednesday, March 4, at 6:30PM on air and online as part of Festival 2020.

JOHNSTON, IOWA (February 18, 2020) — Anticipation is growing for Iowa PBS's upcoming gardening special. Gardening with Steil premieres Sunday, March 1, at 2:30PM as part of Festival 2020. The program will be rebroadcast Saturday, March 7, at 1PM on Iowa PBS's main channel, with additional airings on Iowa PBS WORLD .3 and Iowa PBS Create .4.

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (February 18, 2020) — A spring grants submission deadline of Friday, April 17. 2020 has been announced by The Moline Foundation, a community foundation headquartered in Moline, Illinois.

Any non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization in a seven-county region including Rock Island, Henry, Mercer, Warren, Henderson and McDonough Counties in Illinois and Scott County in Iowa is eligible to apply.

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.” — Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes

Back in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised that Mexico would pay for his proposed border wall. Turns out Mexico wasn't interested, so Trump eventually resorted to declaring fake emergencies and illegally misappropriating money from the military budget.

As a political junkie, I get lots of e-mail pleas from politicians and political advocacy groups. Today, I got one from US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Well, not exactly. That's what the "from" header said, but the message was signed "Team AOC" and delivered via Daily Kos.

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