Lyle Muller

Commentary: Public Records Requests Shouldn't Start With Costs

The request seemed simple: provide your school district’s policy for handling emergencies that require a school lockdown and notifying parents. No one responded the way the Iowa City Community School District did. “Per your request and prior to starting the process, I wanted to inform you that the f

By Lyle Muller

/ 18 Apr 2014

Commentary: Public Records Requests Shouldn't Start With Costs

Commentary: Iowa Needs Problem Solvers To Narrow Opportunity Gaps

In 1974 a handful of leaders in Fort Dodge’s strongly black Pleasant Valley neighborhood wanted the city to do something to help strengthen that neighborhood, especially for young black

By Lyle Muller

/ 16 Sep 2013

Commentary: Iowa Needs Problem Solvers To Narrow Opportunity Gaps

Commentary: Wisconsin Legislative Move Raises Serious Academic Freedom Issues

The punishment was doled out with little warning in a 12-4 party line vote of the Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, with Republicans holding the majority. At about

By Lyle Muller

/ 12 Jun 2013

Commentary: Wisconsin Legislative Move Raises Serious Academic Freedom Issues

Sunshine Week message: Open Government Makes us Better Citizens

Commentary Don’t expect movement in the state Senate on a House bill that would keep secret the names and addresses of people seeking gun permits in Iowa. “I’m

By Lyle Muller

/ 13 Mar 2013

Sunshine Week message: Open Government Makes us Better Citizens

Having More Money May Give Iowa More Fits Than Having Less

Commentary The time existed when buying a television was a difficult decision. Televisions were expensive. Most families had one. You knew someone with money to blow if you knew someone

By Lyle Muller

/ 28 Jan 2013

Having More Money May Give Iowa More Fits Than Having Less

Newsroom Collaboration Gives Veterans Story Life

The numbers were available: Iowa veterans were waiting at the end of 2012, on average, 313 days before the Department of Veterans Affairs processed their benefit claims. Less than a year, but more than 10 months. After returning from war, with disabilities. But what did those numbers mean?

By Lyle Muller

/ 31 Dec 2012

An Update on Disabled Vets Stuck in Backlog Limbo

By Center for Investigative Reporting and The Bay Citizen [http://www.iowawatch.org/?s=CIP&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Go] Iowa response times included in interactive map, shared with public affairs journalism newsrooms

By Lyle Muller

/ 21 Nov 2012

The Search for Respite from Long, Long Presidential Campaigns Never-Ending in Iowa

Your campaigns in the United States seem exhaustive, the German said. What do you think of the way they work? he asked.

By Lyle Muller

/ 9 Nov 2012

The Search for Respite from Long, Long Presidential Campaigns Never-Ending in Iowa

Public Information Board Took Time, Compromise

Governor Branstad takes first step to make government more transparent.

By Lyle Muller

/ 5 May 2012

From the editor: The Gift

Dear Friends of IowaWatch, Back in March, Daily Iowan reporter Danny Valentine walked into my office and dropped an envelope on my table. Inside were five, $100 bills. I want

By Lyle Muller

/ 5 Jun 2010

Commentary: Public Records Requests Shouldn't Start With Costs

Commentary: Iowa Needs Problem Solvers To Narrow Opportunity Gaps

Commentary: Wisconsin Legislative Move Raises Serious Academic Freedom Issues

Sunshine Week message: Open Government Makes us Better Citizens

Having More Money May Give Iowa More Fits Than Having Less

Newsroom Collaboration Gives Veterans Story Life

An Update on Disabled Vets Stuck in Backlog Limbo

The Search for Respite from Long, Long Presidential Campaigns Never-Ending in Iowa

Public Information Board Took Time, Compromise

From the editor: The Gift

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