Investigate Midwest (Page 220)

Iowa Legislator Wants To Push For Personhood Rights For All Fetuses

An Iowa state senator said he wants the Iowa Legislature to define life as beginning at conception following a June 27 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limits how much states can restrict abortion access. But the constitutionality of any legislation along those lines would be contrary to previous Su

By Brittany Robb

/ 30 Jun 2016

Iowa Legislator Wants To Push For Personhood Rights For All Fetuses

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Health Impacts Of Widely-Used Pesticides Uncertain

From our friends at Iowa Watch: Iowa’s wide expanses of row-cropped fields produced roughly 2.5 billion bushels of corn and 554 million bushels of soybeans in 2015. And for many, those high yields are thanks in part to pesticides. But what impact, if any, do those chemicals have on our health? It’s

By Lauren Mills and Jeff Stein/Iowa Watch

/ 29 Jun 2016

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Health Impacts Of Widely-Used Pesticides Uncertain

IowaWatch Connection: Iowa Communities Fighting Opioid Addiction As It Continues To Claim Lives

Forty-four people die everyday in the U.S. from overdose of prescription pain killers, according to statistics provided by the U.S. Attorney’s office. Annually those overdose deaths exceed motor vehicle or firearms deaths. Iowa communities are working to address addiction issues, but for some those

By Jeff Stein

/ 27 Jun 2016

IowaWatch Connection: Iowa Communities Fighting Opioid Addiction As It Continues To Claim Lives

Bee Queen is Insane

“Every eye is turned upon her, every voice is hushed, and everyone leans forward so they may catch her every word.” It was a beekeepers’ national convention held in the mid-1870s, and the person who was about to speak was an Iowan. Her name was Ellen S. Tupper. She was known as the Bee Queen of Iowa

By Cheryl Mullenbach/Iowa History

/ 25 Jun 2016

Senate Ag Committee strikes deal on national GMO labeling bill

The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday reached a landmark agreement on a new GMO labeling bill pushing for a national system for disclosing genetically engineered ingredients on certain food products.

By Robert Holly

/ 24 Jun 2016

Senate Ag Committee strikes deal on national GMO labeling bill

Open Arms in Iowa Concludes: Different Era For Refugees In Iowa

The world is smaller, and more fearful about others, an Iowan whose family took in a Vietnamese family in the 1970s says in this conclusion of a five-part serial about that experience some 40 years ago.

By Clare McCarthy/Special to IowaWatch

/ 23 Jun 2016

Open Arms in Iowa Concludes: Different Era For Refugees In Iowa

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Health Impacts Of Widely-Used Pesticides Uncertain

Iowa’s wide expanses of row-cropped fields produced roughly 2.5 billion bushels of corn and 554 million bushels of soybeans in 2015. And for many, those high yields are thanks in part to pesticides. But what impact, if any, do those chemicals have on our health? It’s a controversial topic and the an

By Lauren Mills and Jeff Stein

/ 20 Jun 2016

The Sooner, The Better

It was both a “horrible and wonderful spectacle.” That’s how Roger Lewis, a Manchester, Iowa native, described the view from his billet near the town of Monthairon, France, where he was stationed with the 110th Ammunition Train during World War I in 1919. They were situated in the Meuse River valley

By Cheryl Mullenbach/Iowa History

/ 18 Jun 2016

Database: Iowa Landfills Tonnage (2000-2015)

Each year, landfills must turn in information on the tonnage taken in, which is reported to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

By Lauren Mills

/ 17 Jun 2016

Paperwork Load, Time Commitment Keep Iowa Landfills From Adopting Plan Called Environment Friendly

The Environmental Management System, or EMS, was seen as an alternative to relying simply on giving credits to Iowa landfills that serve as incentives for accepting fewer tons of garbage. But adoption of this approach has been slow.

By Haley Hansel

/ 17 Jun 2016

Paperwork Load, Time Commitment Keep Iowa Landfills From Adopting Plan Called Environment Friendly

Dangerous jobs, cheap meats

The meatpacking industry has made a lot of progress on worker safety since publication of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” in 1906, but some things remain the same: the work is mostly done by immigrants and refugees; they suffer high rates of injuries and even, sometimes death; and the government lags

By Peggy Lowe/Harvest Public Media

/ 16 Jun 2016

Life Goes On For Vietnamese Iowan But A Lost Love Remains Home

Vietnamese refugee Phat (Patrick) Nguyen, revealed stories about his life in Vietnam before coming to Iowa and the family’s experience in the Malaysian refugee camp, along with stories about living in the United States. It was a story of friends, a home and hope, but he left one special person behin

By Clare McCarthy/Special to IowaWatch

/ 16 Jun 2016

Life Goes On For Vietnamese Iowan But A Lost Love Remains Home