Eastern Iowa Community College District (EICCD) received more than $1.5 million to provide job training for people in the Quad Cities area. These funds were made available through the U.S. Department of Labor's Community Based Job Training Initiative. Although the job-training project was developed specifically for those working in the transportation and warehousing industries, the skills that will be taught are valuable for local workers in several other industries, including health care, food processing, wholesale/retail trade, and office services. These industries employ 45 percent of the Quad Cities area's available workforce.
Near
Wheatland, Iowa, sits the 200-acre Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat.
It's roughly a 40-minute drive from the Quad Cities, and in one
approach a car will go from a four-lane highway to a two-lane road to
a dirt drive.
No
one "banned" Borat
in Russia. At least, not according to officials of Russia's Federal
Agency for Culture & Cinematography. They just "advised" 20th
Century Fox that the movie could offend some viewers and contained
material that "might seem disparaging in relation to certain ethnic
groups and religions." 20th Century Fox has promised to contest
that "recommendation," which was accompanied by a denial of a
screening license. (What kind of "advice" comes with a
prohibition?)
