Investigate Midwest (Page 139)

State Public Safety Department Vehicles Lacked Secure Devices To Store Weapons: Gun Stolen From Vehicle in 2018

Fewer than half of the vehicles from the Iowa Department of Public Safety’s two largest law enforcement divisions were equipped to give officers the option of locking up weapons

By K. Rambo

/ 11 Oct 2019

State Public Safety Department Vehicles Lacked Secure Devices To Store Weapons: Gun Stolen From Vehicle in 2018

Deer Collisions, Hail Help Drive Up Cost To Repair Iowa's Public Safety Vehicles in 2018

Iowa Department of Public Safety vehicles sustained a five-year high of $849,878 worth of damage in 220 incidents in 2018, department officials said. Although only six more incidents

By K. Rambo

/ 11 Oct 2019

Deer Collisions, Hail Help Drive Up Cost To Repair Iowa's Public Safety Vehicles in 2018

#AgAlerts: Water: unaffordable; contaminated; flooding results

A new report finds nearly half the residents of Martin County, Kentucky, cannot afford water service. Local activists with the Martin County Concerned Citizens are ringing alarm bells about water affordability as the beleaguered county faces another likely water rate increase in the coming months.

By Cynthia Voelkl/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 10 Oct 2019

#AgAlerts: Water: unaffordable; contaminated; flooding results

Evans: Our Founders Wanted the Press to Shine Its Spotlight

Fifty-three years ago, I was a high school kid in southern Iowa who knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life: I wanted to be

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 10 Oct 2019

Evans: Our Founders Wanted the Press to Shine Its Spotlight

Seeking a Cure: The Quest to Save Rural Hospitals

A seven-state news investigation revealed plenty of problems facing rural patients but also a variety of creative attempts to solve them. The head of the National Rural Health Association puts it this way: “Everyone realizes we’re at a crisis point.”

By Jennifer Hemmingsen/For Iowa Watch

/ 30 Sep 2019

Seeking a Cure: The Quest to Save Rural Hospitals

A seven-state news investigation revealed plenty of problems facing rural patients but also a variety of creative attempts to solve them. The head of the National Rural Health Association puts it this way: “Everyone realizes we’re at a crisis point."

By Jennifer Hemmingsen / For IowaWatch

/ 30 Sep 2019

Iowa Rural Hospitals Make Tough Choices To Stay Lean, Provide Needed Care

Hospital leaders say a policy fix is needed to ensure the future of rural hospitals in Iowa and across the country that are succumbing to financial pressures and closing their

By Chelsea Keenan, IowaWatch; Sara Konrad Baranowski, Iowa Falls Times Citizen; Natalie Krebs, Iowa Public Radio; Mark Mahoney, N’west Iowa REVIEW and Michaela Ramm, The Gazette

/ 30 Sep 2019

Iowa Rural Hospitals Make Tough Choices To Stay Lean, Provide Needed Care

Agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. But it can also be a part of the solution.

The global food production system, which includes agriculture, accounts for more than a third of manmade greenhouse gases, according to an August report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [https://www.ipcc.ch/2019/08/08/land-is-a-critical-resource_srccl/]. And while

By Christopher Walljasper, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 27 Sep 2019

Agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. But it can also be a part of the solution.

Open Government, 1st Amendment Champions From Iowa Pick Up Honors

IowaWatch honored an outstanding journalist and long-time advocate for newspapers during its seventh annual banquet Thursday night, Sept. 26, at the Des Moines Marriot Downtown. Carol Hunter was given

By IowaWatch

/ 27 Sep 2019

Open Government, 1st Amendment Champions From Iowa Pick Up Honors

Opinion: Time for Tyson to be up front in chicken marketing

Lawsuits filed by the Organic Consumers Association and Food and Water Watch do not seek monetary damages. Instead, the non-profits want Tyson to cease pulling the wool over the public's eye when it comes to marketing chickens.

By Dave Dickey, Columnist

/ 26 Sep 2019

Opinion: Time for Tyson to be up front in chicken marketing

#AgAlerts: Slaughterhouses speed up; Roundup; labor trafficking

The new rule allows slaughterhouses to opt in to the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System (inexplicably, NSIS), a “modernized” system that eliminates maximum line speeds and shifts some of the responsibility for removing sick animals from the processing line from USDA inspectors to plant employees.

By Cynthia Voelkl/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 25 Sep 2019

#AgAlerts: Slaughterhouses speed up; Roundup; labor trafficking

Opinion: EPA chooses chemical companies over children's health

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in August 2018 already ruled chilorpyrifos unsafe and ordered EPA to revoke food tolerances and take the pesticide off the market. But that ruling was vacated in February after EPA requested a rehearing which ultimately ordered EPA in a writ o

By Dave Dickey, Columnist

/ 25 Sep 2019

Opinion: EPA chooses chemical companies over children's health