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Last week, President Donald Trump announced the United States is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, a global effort to reduce greenhouse emissions to limit global warming to an increase of two degrees Celsius. In December 2015, University of Illinois Crop Sciences Professor Stephen Long addr
For the grand price of $1.50 the St. Paul & Des Moines Railroad took passengers from Union Depot in Des Moines to the “Best Place on Earth,” otherwise known as Clear Lake, Iowa, in 1910.
Knowing where your water comes from is one thing. Knowing what is in your water is another. Three of Cedar Falls’ wells – 3, 9 and 10 – consistently have recorded high nitrate levels.
Watch out Iowa. Our political leaders seem to get many of their ideas from our neighbors in Wisconsin, and the latest idea being considered there is a real doozy.
IowaWatch documentary film maker Greta Meyle is on a quest to produce a documentary that addresses issues related to people who are raped while in college. This powerful story is in need of research and development support and we are asking for your help.
On fliers posted across the South in 1865 the U.S. government promised a reward of $100,000 to “any person or persons who will apprehend and deliver Jefferson Davis” to authorities. The president of the Confederacy was on the run with his family and some of his Confederate officials.
Facing intense academic demands and ever-present peer comparisons through social media, an increasing number of Iowa high school students grapple with mental health issues and enduring problems previous generations seldom confronted, an IowaWatch High School Journalism Project has found.
An IowaWatch-Iowa Public Radio report last week shows that Iowa lawmakers have repeatedly dropped the ball when it comes to providing funding equity for the state’s public schools.
The 2016 political campaign may be behind voters but the high awareness of its results and the rhetoric it spawned has, in many ways, not disappeared. This IowaWatch Connection radio report brings the voices of voters, post-election, to you.
