Investigate Midwest (Page 189)

Complaints surge about weed killer dicamba’s damage to oak trees

As soybean and cotton farmers across the Midwest and South continue to see their crops ravaged from the weed killer dicamba, new complaints have pointed to the herbicide as a factor in widespread damage to oak trees.

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 9 Oct 2017

Complaints surge about weed killer dicamba’s damage to oak trees

‘Alzheimer’s Tsunami’ Threatens Growing Dementia Care Demand As Medicaid Funding Gets Tighter

Several times a week, Lou Stepanek drives to the Hiawatha Care Center in Iowa to spend time with someone who hasn't seemed to recognize him for more than a decade: his wife.

By Cindy Hadish

/ 9 Oct 2017

‘Alzheimer’s Tsunami’ Threatens Growing Dementia Care Demand As Medicaid Funding Gets Tighter

Graphics: Alzheimer's Is A National Problem

MAIN STORY: ‘ALZHEIMER’S TSUNAMI’ THREATENS TO UPEND HEALTH CARE AS MEDICAID TIGHTENING TAKES ROOT CARE AIMED SPECIFICALLY AT ALZHEIMER’S PATIENTS

By Graphics by Alissa Scheller/HuffPost

/ 9 Oct 2017

Care Aimed Specifically At Alzheimer's Patients At This Iowa Care Center

Not all care centers have prohibitions against dementia patients. Some, in fact, are designed specifically for people diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

By Cindy Hadish

/ 9 Oct 2017

Care Aimed Specifically At Alzheimer's Patients At This Iowa Care Center

Back When Iowa Had The Only Deer Farm in the West

In some ways John W. Griggs was a typical Iowa farmer. But in 1909 a New York City newspaper described Griggs’ Iowa operation as the “only deer farm run for profit.”

By Cheryl Mullenbach/Iowa History

/ 7 Oct 2017

Back When Iowa Had The Only Deer Farm in the West

How Undocumented Immigrants Became The Backbone Of Dairies — And How To Keep The Milk Flowing In America's Dairyland

Immigration as a top line issue for dairy farmers would have been unthinkable just a generation ago when Wisconsin’s agricultural landscape was dominated by small and medium-sized dairy farms run by the families that owned them. Now, the nation’s No. 2 milk producing state is home to a growing numbe

By Dee Hall and Riley Vetterkind/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

/ 6 Oct 2017

How Undocumented Immigrants Became The Backbone Of Dairies — And How To Keep The Milk Flowing In America's Dairyland

Long-time housing for migrant farmworkers closes

Since 2001, the former hospital on Nightingale Court in Rantoul, Ilinois housed as many as 450 migrant farmworkers and their families to work in the fields in central Illinois. But this year, its owner - Unique Storage Inc. - did not submit a migrant labor camp application for the site, known as Nig

By Anna Casey

/ 6 Oct 2017

Long-time housing for migrant farmworkers closes

IowaWatch, Iowa Freedom of Information Council Honor Open Government Advocates At 2017 Banquet

IowaWatch honored an outstanding journalist and a long-time advocate for newspapers during its fifth annual banquet October 5. See the story here.

By Sarah Fields

/ 5 Oct 2017

IowaWatch, Iowa Freedom of Information Council Honor Open Government Advocates At 2017 Banquet

Troubled Water: A News21 Documentary

Troubled Water is a 30-minute documentary about drinking water contamination in the United States. The film explores nine locations across the country where water has affected people.

By News21

/ 4 Oct 2017

“We are rationing the food”: the humanitarian crisis devastates isolated communities in the mountainous rural region

The federal, national and municipal governments have still not cleared the way into at least nine neighborhoods in Utuado, the third largest municipality in the Island.

By Eliván Martínez Mercado/Centro de Periodismo Investigativo

/ 3 Oct 2017

María’s dead in Puerto Rico are underreported

The fatalities related to circumstances created by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico are still mounting with each passing day, and official numbers are not counting patients who are not receiving dialysis, oxygen and other essential services,

By Omaya Sosa Pascual/Centro de Periodismo Investigativo

/ 3 Oct 2017

Unknown number and whereabouts of arrested for curfew alleged violations

Although the government has confirmed there are people in jail for allegedly committing serious crimes during the curfew, no government official has been able to say how many and where they are.

By Laura Moscoso/Centro de Periodismo Investigativo

/ 3 Oct 2017